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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12646, 2 June 1919, Page 6

Notice appears in the “ Gazette that Colonel H. S. E. Hobday haa been granted a License to erect and maintain a jetty in the Heathcote Estuary near the foot of the Mount Pleasant road. A brief discussion on the work of soldiers in hospital took place at the U.S.A. conference yesterday on a remit that men engaged on vocational training should be allowed to sell goods made by them outside the time set apart for curative treatment. Air Douglas Sey niour. in explaining the present position, said that the men were using departmental tools and-material, and they were put to the occupation most likely to expedite their recovery. Therefore, one man might bo working in tho kitchen garden and another making articles for sale. If one man could sell his product the other might cxjiect to be paid. The rule that the articles should not be sold might bo varied to allow' a man to send home one article in four. A delegate stilted that at Rotorua the receipts were pooled for the entertainment fund Mr V B M’Callum said that in Christchurch the Department was taking the money. Tho president replied that ;f the matter was represented to Colonel AN ylio lie was sure the Holorua principle would be applied, •