WELLINGTON NOTES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 14 December 1912, Page 5

WELLINGTON NOTES.

LABOUR JOURNAL'S REPORT,

TROUBLE AT A SHEARING SHED.

"WE DON'T STRIKE: We'sIMOPLY

REFUSE TO WORK."

MORE POPULATION

IMPORTANT M'EDICAiL AP-

POINTMENT,

RABBITS SHOT, TRAPPED, POISONED A"ND "DOGGED."

(By Telegraph). (Special to "Chronicle.")

WELLINGTON, Deo. 13. The Labour Journal reporfta good trade at every part of the Dominion! with the exception of Greynuouth and* the West Coast. iComipa.riaita.vely little unemployment appears to exist in any tirade, and unskilled labour is nearly all occupied. * -

" Is there any Possibility of a strike?"" «i "Past" reporter .asked Mr Laracy, secretary of the Sheep Shearers' Union, to-day, hi- reference ,to the troublewhich- hans occurred at'the Tablelands shed over the shearing of what &r&known as "doggy sheep." "There is no danger ■of fa strike," the replied. "We don't strike. We sionjply refuse towork. " The strike ds out of date." By the New Zealand Shipping Dem— , pany's steamer Ruapehu <a total of 391 passengers, who are booked to variousports in New Zealand, will arrive here - shorMy. Of thisiiumiber, 85 are travel- - ling _ saloon, and the remainder (206) are in the third class, and may be regarded as ionmiigrants. Fifty of the - immigra-nits are foeang assisted by the Government. Eleven adults and nine.children were nominated by relatives' or friends dn New Zealand^ and three - children were approved ■ !by (the High Commissioner. Among tilie "lass^steds" are 11 farm labourers; 9 farmers' 12 domestic ■servants (who are under thecharge of a. matron), while five wivesare coaming to rejoin their husbands, ">» who have previously settled .in. News Zealand. , ,

The local Hospital Coammitifce© yest-er— day resolved to recommend to the full Board, that Dr Hardiwick© Smith, (the medical superintendent; ibe autihorised, when at Home, to make inquiries for - an expert bacteriologist, and that lie foe -> empowered to engage a suitiaible man ■fit a salary not exceeding £600 per annum. The initentdon is that the 'baictenologisjt will kill and prepare •vaccines of such germe as diphtiierk', typhoid, tubercle, tetanus, iSlood ipoisoning, sand th«se prepiariationis iwill !be •■ used in the cure of "the diseiases named" or in rendering pei-sons dnimune from' their attacks. While away from New. Zealand, D* Hiardwioke Smith will devote practically all the time ait liis disposal to studying hospital adlmiinistration.

Rabbits trapped,'shot//poiisonetf, ami , dogged" were discussed lat the Magistrate's Coiurt this morning, when - a settler was charged with failing to destroy rabbits on his property. Defen- ! dant, says the "(Posit," maintained that he had lessoned the number of rodents. on his (property. In the course of isix months he land has partner had used ovtor a thousand cartridges, land 90 per oenlfcof these had; accounted for a kill. Moreover, h« m/aintained .thiait .poison and'' traps had ibeen laid. He pointed out that at this time of the year, when1 every doe hasia small family of ei<rht or nine, perhaps at intervals of six weeks,, ifc was not surprising that Ifche inspector should see a good number on; ,t3ie property. The presence of these young ones, moreover, rendered trapping ineffective, .as they were not heavy enoughl' to press down the trap plate, land only dustuiribed the earth over At, uncovering 'the device to their elders and (betters. There was, too. he stated, too much feed for poisoning to be successful just jiow. Mr W. G. Biddell, aMer> hearing the evidence of four witnesses, dlisimdssed the infonmlation.