COMMONWEALTH NEWS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5496, 15 April 1910, Page 3

COMMONWEALTH NEWS.

| ' o — Sydney, April 13. Sir G. B. Simpson, senior puisne judge, has resigned. The Miners Wages Board's award for the Stockton and Borehole mines fixed the price for cleaning and filling coal behind the screen at tenpence per ton. The award makes the working time underground eight hours, exclusive of half-an-hour for crib. The award bas caused 'great disappointment amongst the miner.-. They claimed at the rate of 27s per ton and eight hours from bank to bank. The opinion is expressed amongst tbe miners that the Borehole men will not work under the award and that will mean trouble with the other pits. The members of the miners' federation said : "We thought we might get something which would make us view the Wages' Board in a more favourable light, but this settles it." Melbourne, April 13^ In giving evidence in the Arbitration Court on the question of marine stewards' wages the providore of the Union Company said the second stewards of the company who looked after the saloon bar got from £4 to £5 a month as the result of a system of pooling tips. On the steamer Oonab, where he shared the weekly division, the tips ranged from 9s to 23s 6d per man. The timber stackers' strike continues. A considerable number of free labourers have been put on and are working under police protection. PfETH April 12. Large quantities of the Pericles' cargo are being ..covered. The steamer Hena secured a thousand boxes of butter and a quantity of tallow. It is believed that the wreck is breaking op Bteps are being taken to locate the fatal rock.

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