CONDENSED NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17080, 29 June 1923, Page 6

CONDENSED NEWS.

Mr L. F. Arson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries and Mr K- Craig have arrived at Blenheim with a shipment of 600,000 rjuiimat salmon ova for the Maori Crook hatchery. A resolution asking the Dominion Executive to do everything possible to induce the Government to lay the report of the Pensions Commission on the table of the House without further delay was passed by the Canterbury District Committee of the 3LS.A. The Greymcuth Hospital Board lias appointed Dr J. F. C. Moore, who has been senior house surgeon at Auckland hospital, to the position of medical superintendent', out of fifteen applicants. There were twenty-one applications for the position of Matron, and Miss Geraldine E. Brood, assistant inspector of hospitals at Dunedin, was appointed. Tho Hon. D. Budelo has asked the Government to consider the question ofappointing graders of farm produce at the main ports of shipment during the autumn months, so that rejections of produce by purchasers may be undertaken before shipment, and thus avoid ! unnecessary cost to farmers and agents j when consigning shipments to other j ports. Air A. C. Gaughey has presented to the Plunket Society, for a Karitane hospital, his house of sixteen rooms at Mount Albert, Auckland, together with the land occupied by the buildings, tlie society to pay for ; the balance of the land, compris- j ing nearly two acres in all. Tlie j value of the gift is stated conservatively at £6OOO. The price to be paid by tiie society for the additional land is about £3IOO. A statement of Poppy Day sales was ; presented to the Canterbury District J Committee of the R.S.A. by tlie seere- i tary, Mr W. E. Leadioy. " It showed | that the Canterbury and Westland districts had raised the sum of £1430 10s by the sale of poppies. After dcduc ting the cost of the poppies and headquarter’s expenses in connection witli the importation of the iioppies, a net sum of £94-1 5s 6d was available for use in the centres throughout Canterbury and West-land for providing work for unemployed soldiers. Tlie housing problem was dismissed at. tho P.P.A. Council, and the followins resolution was carried unanimous- j ly:—“That this council urges the Government to develop a housing scheme that will meet adequately the pressing need for houses for families throughout the Dominion. That the realisation of such a scheme will greatly conduce to the happiness and well-being and morality of the people. The council trusts that valuations will be on such j a basis as to permit less fortunate but j nevertheless w-ortliy citizens to secure j homes.’* Labo ur amendments to the no-con- j fide nee motion originally moved by Mr: ! Wilford arc so plentiful that yester- i day’s Address-in.~R.eply discussion was only followed with half-hearted interest. Even when the Prime Minister returned to the fray the House did not show its usual expectancy, though when tho division beils rang it was noticeable that members had not been far off. Increasing firmness from tho chair showed that Mr Speaker felt justified, after nearly a fortnight’s talk, in confining the debate to strict channels and absolutely excluding interruption. The only interesting point i about the series was tlie attitude of tlie ; Liberal Party towards Labour amend- ! ; men is, rarely favourable, mostly an- | t agonistic. At the annual conference of the New j Zealand Timber Workers’ Federation i Mr E. Phelan, of Auckland the presi- ; dent, stressed tho increasing import- 1 anco of tlio timber industry in New j Zealand, it was not generally recog- J nised, lie said, that the timber in- j dustry was tho second largest- in tho j Dominion. There wore 43,72 S employed j in the production of sawn timber. Tho j total output last year was 314.972,310 j superficial feet, valued at £3,292,587. j Wages paid in tlie same period j amounted to £1.970,790. He spoke of | the necessity and desire of the fedora- j tion to assist sawmill owners and the j Government in providing cheaper tim- ; her in order that houses may be erected . . at less cost and on up-to-date and cfli- j < cierit lines. Stringent criticism -of the position of ! the boot manufacturing trade in New : Zealand was made by Mr F Jones. J employees’ delegate. x at a sitting of ! a. Conciliation Council in Wellington. ; “There is enormous waste in the in- : dustry in New Zealand,” eaicl Air i ' Jones, “ and there is enormous waste in overhead charges. There is a large . ( amount of capital which is not effi ; ciontly employed. Take tho case o! j ■ Auckland, where there is enormous j; waste.” Mr T. Bishop, employers’ representative: “Yes, but the only solu- ; - lion would be the elimination of the ! - small factory altogether. It wo car ; . ried your argument home avid confined manufacture to special work, reducing j the number of factories to .two or three I big ones, you would bo the first to j suffer.”