LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1930, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A meeting of the Inglewood branch of the Farmers’ Union on Saturday, called to discuss the proposed veterinary., service scheme, lapsed as.anly four members appeared. After having attended Napier District Alain School together as youths, Air. W. Cecil Prime, employers’ representative on the Arbitration Court, and Air. AV. J. Mountjoy, employers’ advocate, met for the first time for 27 years in the Arbitration Court at Wellington on Thursday.

“We want to prevent apprentices doing the work on their own during the period of apprenticeship,” ■ said the workers’ representative in the Arbitration Court at Wellington when asking for a fixture for an application to amend the award in the ease of painters’ and decorators’ apprentices. The application will be heard later.

An organisation which provides accommodation and meals for girls who are only earning small wages and attends to the wants of girl immigrants made application in the Arbitration Court at Wellington for exemption from an award. It was stated that the institution was not conducted for profit, and in fact had an overdraft at the bank, which was met by guarantees. Mr. Justice Frazer said no doubt the application would be granted if there was no objection from the employee’s representative, but the court had to be assured that such institutions were not competing with private enterprise.

“My lease has only two years to run and then I shall leave this terrible life. We only employ our own family, and my son ia more help to me than any woman,” said a boarding-house keeper in the Arbitration Court at Wellington in objecting to being added as a party to the award governing private hotels and boarding houses. Another objector eaid she had accommodation for nine only, and seven others cime in to meals. She did most of the work herself, and would take in fewer people or walk out of it rather than come under the award. She was granted exemption from this particular award, but it was intimated that the tearooms’ and restaurants’ award might apply. A battered and sadly mis-shapen bicycle was claimed by a plaintiff in the Supreme Court at Auckland as an eloquent witness in support of his case. “You have no witness but yourself to say that the car was on the wrong side?” he was asked by opposing counsel. “Yes, I have,” asserted the plaintiff. "Here it. is,” he added, pointing dramatically to the wrecked cycle, when he was pressed to name the witness, “fa that the only witness you have to say the car was on the wrong side?” pursued counsel. Plaintiff was unwilling to admit that this was his only witncs on the point, but he failed to'specify any other. The hack of provision for the training of local body officers and civil servants was .a. deficiency in the university courses in New Zealand commented upon by Dr. H. Belshaw, professor of economies at Auckland University College, during an address to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. Professor Belshaw said that in most countries there were university facilities for the preparation of officials for public administration. In view of the large number.of such officials in New Zealand and of the importance of public enterprise, it was imperative that they should have the highest possible tuition and that the university should endeavour to provide that training.

“A bottle of mammitis paint goes very much further than you claim for it and I wish to congratulate you on your remedy,” writes ■ a dairy farmer to S. Liesaman, Chemist, Box G3A, Kaponga.*