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Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1933, Page 6

A party representing the Chicago Geographical Society, in charge of Mr. Joseph Wright, will arrive at Auckland by the Matson liner Mariposa on August 11. After making a tour of New Zealand the visitors will return to America by the Mariposa when she leaves Auckland on August 26. Mr. F. Dyer, consul for Greece, reports having placed an order for a considerable shipment of New Zealand, butter for immediate shipment to Lourenco Marques, Portugese East Africa (says the Wellington Dominion). So far as it is known this locality is a new market for New Zealand butter. The produce has been ordered by the secretary of a large freezing and ice works company,. in Lourenco Marques, who was at one time a member of the Greek community in Wellington.

“You must now realise, the folly .of your strike. You say you were out by yc ur union, well I hope you will have something to say to your union,” said Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Wanganui to a witness concerned in a maintenance case. “Yes, I have, sir,” was the reply. “You see you gave up the certainty of work for the miserable pittance you are now receiving,” remarked Mr. Salmon. Witness, who was applying for a variation of his maintenance order, .had stated that he was in poor circum-. stances and on relief work. He had been employed at the Imlay Freezing Works for. 14 years but this year had been “dragged” out on strike by his union with the result that he had experienced great difficulty in keeping five children and a wife, from whom he was separated.

When the vessel Dunrobin, which berthed at the Castlecliff wharf at Wanganui last year, broke her moorings in the teeth of a heavy gale, a certain amount of damage was done to the Harbour Board’s property and a claim to cover the cost was made by the board on the owners of the ship. When the board met on Tuesday advice was received to the effect that the owners denied liability on the ground that the happening was the result of an act of God. They considered, for that reason, that the matter should be allowed to drop and in such a case both parties would bear their respective losses in the matter. The managing-secretary _to the board (Mr. W. J. Gardner) was instructed to write to the owners regretting that they had adopted such a attitude. The board’s claim was really for something in the nature of salvage.

“I think it is correct to say that the feeling is intensifying rapidly that before the end of this year we shall have another general election,” says the London correspondent of an English provincial newspaper. “There are some serious cracks in the fabric of the present party alliance. National Labour is not happy with National Conservatism, and some of the National Liberals are not happy with either. Incidents have occurred in the last week or two which seem to intensify the disunion. In the Conservative party itself there are such sharp differences of opinion that it is possible we shall see some dramatic changes in the higher ranks of the party. Out of all these confusions there seems to be a confirmation of what Sir Herbert Samuel said recently as to the possibility of a general election this year. A storm sometimes clears the atmosphere. A general election would do the same thing in the political world. This is why more and more people are daily coming to the conclusion that by Christmas it will be all over.”