BOOT TRADE.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16653, 14 October 1919, Page 2

BOOT TRADE.

INCREASE OF WAR BONUS APPLIED FOR. (TRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, October 13. Tlie Arbitration Court was asked today whether it was prepared to hear an" application for an amendment of the Federated Boot Trades of the Dominion award, regarding ail increase of the war bonus. The Court agreed to hear the application at Wellington on November 25th. The Court stated that the original agreement between the parties, that no increase should be asked during the currency of the award, would not be allowed to stand I in the way.

> In an interesting letter to a Welling- ■ ton pressman, one of tlio leading re- ' sidents of Colon (at the eastern en- ' : trance to the Panama Canal) says:— ' "Your boys are still passing through, ' but not in such large nnmbers, and we , have not had the same opportunities ' of welcoming them to this dynamic little burgh. I like* your boys—they have always appealed to me, probably because lam British-born. They are so independent, so confident, and so modest. I have rarely heard a New Zealander boast of liisprowees —or, yes, I have heard him give praise to the New Zealand Division, to which he was privileged to belong—but as for the 'alone I did it* stunt, no, never! "SVe have had a busy timo, and of course the regular visit of transports has circulated quite a lot of English money." In relieving coughs and colds "NAZOL" goes straight to the seat of the trouble. Penetrating, soothing, germkilling. Sixty doses cost only Is 6d. 4