CANTERBURY DRIVERS UNION.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13902, 29 November 1910, Page 8

CANTERBURY DRIVERS UNION.

The monthly general meetiogef .»• , Canterbury Drivers' Union yrW teW is tho Trades' Hall on, Friday evening-. There was a large attendauco <rf Jβ?* , hers, and Mr T. Green, president, W& pied the chair. Correspondence : ***• received from the Municipal p-VPK (xmtation Committee, enclosing ccjy.* platform ad. :>ted, and stating , -«* Union was entitled to submit "**? * candidates to the committee .* IU, /J • view to their selectiou ac nonurtces W the municipal elections. It W **'-J£solved to endorse the platform ss »»" mitted, and to submit the name of J» secretary, Mr H. Hunter, ™°? el £®Z . candidates for a seat on the City ■ cil, to represent the Sydenham *£* , A number of reports were receiver »o» the Labour Department witn ™er«ns* to enquiries made into alleged M«a«"» of the award, in which it was sw» that action was beins taken *S»jr throe drivers for failing to enter »■ number of hours worked by the time book provided by the *£ plover, as prescribed by tho awara-/"-Tramway Board wrote staling ">** ' liad resolved to remove the W«*g the centre of the road »*•*«*££" tjon of Lower Hi E h street and Be«Pj does street, and also Madras efcee-" , roonested by tho Union, and fg**™* ] that it could not see its way to wg* , tin TOles at Colombo street. »"*|S , crossing. The letter was >, it was resolved to reply than jane « Tramway Board for its decision to i£ move the poles mentioned, awl v> press regret that it could not «w • way to remove those at the r«ii - crossing at Colombo street, »' /- needed removal more those the Board had decided to W»gMemhers in speaking to the . nuote<-l numerous instances or w ll * ■. happening, and of others Jβ""*.?!' rowly averted, at the crossing- A i ther communication, rs ?f ost . , *L net ) Union to supply specific ™J™»Z. whore cars had Ixx-n stopped . intersections of rtreets was W" and it was resolved to wnto w . Tramway Employees' Union on matter.