TELEGRAPHIC.

Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 938, 4 February 1908, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC.

[I'HK.SS ASSOCIATION".]

IXVKIU'.IKCIIJ, laM night

A conference between the slaughtermen and representatives of the Southland freezing works was held this afternoon ana evening id review :v draft agreement defining wages, fund ii ioTis of work, oic. Nothing was finally fixed, hut everything goes -•moothly. It is the practice of t Jioso concerned 10 hold these meetings, and conference* are aiso hold briworii masiits and men in reference to n series ol' agreements* from the Southland r'reezing Workers' Union. The men affected do various kinds of work under different conditions and the task of arriving at the arrangement satisfactory to all parties -is not en<y. It i" understood, however, lhat this lias been dime.

DUNEDIX, la>t night

Owiiu:; in the increased cost oi' bunker coal the Union Steamship Coinl>*«iiy ha> increased the inlercolonia l fate- Jjy 10s saloon a nd. ~}s steerage.