CONDENSED NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17159, 1 October 1923, Page 6

CONDENSED NEWS.

OVERNIGHT SUMMARY. A special meeting of the Trades and Labour Council held on Saturday night an appeal for moral and financial assistance to the wives and families of the West Coast miners. The Rev R. Coats, preaening at Remucra. stated that a woman attending the Hickson Mission preparation services, who was very hard of hearing, bad her hearing restored. The members of the John Knox Presbyterian Church Congregation, Rangiora. celebrated the first anniversary of the opening of the. new church by holding a soiree on Friday evening. A lecture, with vocal illustrations on The Evolution of Vocal Music,"’ was delivered by Mr Sidney Butler, L.R.A.M. at a meeting of the Society for Imperial Culture on Saturday night. The ceremony of consecrating the colours of the First Battalion, Canterbury Regiment, took place on Saturday afternoon in Cranrner Square. It was performed by the Battalion Chaplain, the Rev Nelson Wright. Vandalism is becoming a very common nuisance on the West Coast. The latest instance is reported from Hokitika where some valuable bulbs in MacAndrew Street- reset ve hare been wantonly destroyed. Reserves in Greymouth are also being damaged. A meeting of local bodies called by the Southland League was held at Invercargill on Saturday for the purpose of making a united protest against the omission of Southland from. the. itinerary of the overseas settlement cleleThe exodus of miners from Millerion is very marked. Before- the cessation of work there were thirty residents at Mine Creek and eighty at Mangatiua, while at the present time the figures recorded are six and thirty respectively. The Millcrton Miners predict that the cud of the dispute is not far off. On Saturday afternoon an official visit by members of the Dominion Headquarters executive of the scout movement was paid to the scout ship at Redcliffs. The party consisted of Brigadier-General Andrews, chairman oi the Dominion Executive; Mr Oharlo wood, treasurer: Captain Colon no., Lloyds registrar, and Captain Munro. At a meeting of the committee of the Christchurch Juvenile Choir on Saturday, it was reported that owing to. the recent epidemic of influenza the proposal to stage a Pageant of Fairyland ” had had to be dropped for the present, and it had been decided to produce one oporotti*, ** Cinderella,” at the end of November. A long discussion took place at the last meeting of the Oxford branch ot the Farmers’ Union, in regard to shipping freights, the determining factor in deciding what is milling wheat •and what is fowl wheat. The branch approved of a conference to consider these matters but thought, it should be- with the Grain Millers’ Association of New' Zealand and not with graders. On Saturday teams representing the Springston. Ellesmere, Styx and Christchurch Gun Clubs, met at Sockburn in a, competition for the Vale Sparrow Shield. The event, is shot annually, the conditions being ten men a side, each to shoot at ten sparrows from twenty-one yards rise. The final figures were: Christchurch 7:l— - 67 —100. Springston 67

The foliowing resolution was rarried at a meeting pf the North Canterbury Labour Representation Committee at a meeting held on Saturday evening}— “The Christchurch L-R.C. in support» ing the miners on the Coast. points out that as a section of the New Zealand Labour Party, it sees no satisfactory solution of the mining problems short of its own remedy which is based on the communal ownership-and control of the. mines."

Many of the more enlightened mind: in England inoked to emigration to solve religious difficulties, stated Dr J, Hight. Professor of History an Can terhury College. in the rourse of a lecture on “ The. History of North Canterbury." 111' the \X'.]‘L;\, ('luss on Sat—urday night. He added that Edward Gibbon \Vakefield entertained a scheme for religious setticment in New Zna~ Jaan but this idea was not r‘m‘ried out. for various reasons until 1849, when \Vakefielli mot John Robert (indlmn A: :1 result a scheme of a. (whim “a: Jrawn up and an nssncim “my formr‘ri. and on Dcr‘enflwei' I“. 18-30. tho first Emir ships arrived in LutcltmL in 18“ the mutant of the ZiiL-nttish Sur‘iny TiRH’Cd tht‘ Canter—bury Pinini for tho pixrpnsv of spiedimz n suitabln sitn far :1 SmtliSh ('rilony. He. hmxm‘mu rojm‘ted HIP I’lanw and the Sr'nttish scttiompnb was mmiv further south, at Dunedin.

’l'hu Dommion award gofrrmng prmtors‘ machinists. lithographers. hookbindors. m.r-.. provides the folio“: ing minimum “ages for juniors:~£2 first, year. £2 55 wound. 192 1:“ third.

The: Arhitmnion (‘uurl “‘zh asked tn. xnterpren a matter. the question being,

“ ls :1 jnninr within Ilm ”waning of ”‘0 ("lull“) u person mull-r twvnn-mm or a pprson of any my? who has not. served three years at the crude 1‘" 311' .ln=tice Frazer. giving: the Court's in~ terPretatimL Maid a ijm' was nut an apprentice and alter f’hrnc )cars‘ service rlid not, nocns<arily hevome a Stefeob)’pé‘r or assistant, stereotypor. Ordinarlly provision was made \\ herohy Workers of similar grade performing work that was largely unskilled should he paid al-cording In rage. In this baa;Lhe rates suggpsted that iunim‘s he—gan at about. nightepn. but Xhe partxes had agreed that the basis of payment should he yemx of wrvine and not aga A junior according to the award mlght lherefore be of any 2g?~