POLITICAL NOTES.
(PRESS association tslegraus.)
NAPIER, May 16. The Premier arrived to-night, and will address a public meeting to-morrow.
WELLINGTON, May 16.
The Eight Hours Bill which the Minister for Education' intends to introduce next session, will provide for the creation of an eight hours working day in the various trades. For the purposes of the Act the colony will be divided into districts, conterminous with the present educational districts, and the various factory inspectors will be appointed registrars in these districts, whose business will be to enrol the members of each trade on separate rolls. On receiving a petition from say fifty workers in any trade the registrar moat hold a poll to bring the Act into force, and should such poll be favourable eight hours will be declared a legal day for that particular trade in that particular district.
Our Dunedin correspondent states that Mr. John.Gunn, whose name is mentioned as a likely Ministerial candidate for a suburban seat, is the representative of a Glasgow • importing house, and is very popular in Volunteer circles.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 8485, 17 May 1893, Page 5
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