GENERAL NEWS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17939, 6 December 1923, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

The auction announcements of H. B. Sorensen, Craddock's Agency Coy., Ltd., Lawrie and Dalton, and Feek and Hawkings, appear on Page 15 of this issue. The first annual meeting of the Canterbury Pilgrims' Association will be held at 7.3U this evening in the Provincial Council Chambers. In view of the importance of the "work ahead of the Association a full attendance of members is looked for. The public is invited, but only members of the Association r.re eligible to vote. A patent device to lessen the risk at railway crossings has been brought under the notice 01 the Wanganui Automobile Association by an inventor, Mr John T. Walker, of Aramoho. Instead of a bell at a railway crossing, the engine on approaching a crossing causes a jet of water to play in the middle of the roadway about four feet high, which at night would be seen a long distance off in the glare of the headlight. It is claimed that for crossings in country districts the device could be operated in conjunction with a water-tank in the vicinity.

The annual conference of the New Zealand Labour Party will be held in Dunedin during Easte'r of next- year. Cinema entertainments are to be permiLted in Wellington on Christmas Day, subject to the programmes being approved by the Town Clerk. _ Farmers' Day at the Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, will be held next Tuesday from 10.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. At the Wellington Court yesterday, ex-Police Constable Andrew McJennett pleaded guilty to the theft of £27 7s, money received by him in respect to applications for firearms licenses. He was committed to theSupreme Court for sentence. Bail was refused. According to a statement made by Dr. F. W. Hilgendorf at the Philosophicar Institute last night, the expedition to the Chatham Islands, in January, will include Professor R. Speieht, Mr G. E. Archey, Mr H. F. Skev "and possibly Mr R,. M. Laing, as botanist, all of whom are members of the Institute. Mr H. G. Ell has procured a team of grey horses for the stage coach to be used on the Summit road, and there will be an exhibition drive round the city on Saturday. The route will be advertised in to-morrow morning's papers. A collection will be taken up in aid of the funds of the Summit Road Association. Two months ago there was held tho first of a series of informal conferences of the Anglican clergymen of the Ashburton County. The second of these gatherings has been held at the Vicarage, Rakaia. It is hoped by thesemeans to draw the ministers closer together, to create a feeling of greater unity among them, and to help in the elucidation of Scriptural and other matters. At the disposal of a board appointed by the Government to deal with the question of mental defectives is an amount of £70,000, which is now to be utilised for the scientific treatment of these unfortunates (writes our Sydney correspondent). The Government has purchased about 100 acres of land in tho country, and here it is proposed to erect buildings, for which plans have already been prepared. In addition to receiving treatment within the homes which are thus to be established, the mental defectives will be educated in different forms of agriculture and be given an open-air, active life. From a humanitarian point of view, it will probably be the Government's best monument.

Dr. G. J. B'ackmore, medical superintendent of the Cashmere Sanatoria, who is about to leave for an extended health trip overseas, was asked yesterday if it would be possible, during his visit, to investigate the Spalilinger treatment if he were requested by the Government to do so. "It might be possible, of course, but I do not think I will have a great deal of time to spend there," replied Dr. Blackmore. "I am going on a holiday trip, but I am having k look round also, and I intend to go to Geneva. If the request were, put to me in that way, I should make an attempt to investigate the treatment. If there was a desire for mo to investigate, I think I could manage it."

That certain workers may form themselves into a union which may be registered under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act and yet be unable to obtain an award from the Court of Arbitration is a state of affairs tiiat appears to be emphasised by the judgment, published in yesterday's issue, of the Court in the local body cierks' ease. In 1917 the Court was asked whether the Dunedin Corporation Tramways' Officers Union and the Auckland Tramways' Officers' and Clerical Employees' Union were entitled to bo registered under the Act. In the case of the Dunedin Union its membership rule made "it possible for the following to become members of the union: the the accountant, revenue clerks, traffic cierks, typisto, tramway inspectors, the foreman, and storemen: the rule provided that "any official employed in the Dunedin city corporation tramways" was eligible for membership. The Auckland union's membership was as varied. The Court's opinion was that "notwithstanding the novelty of the constitution of the unions, there is nothing in the Act to prevent employees of a particular employer, although engaged in a variety of occupations, forming themselves into a union and registering under the Act; in such cases the union should be limited to the employees in the particular undertakings, or business." The Court added that section 95 of the 'principal Ac:, ("award may be applied to different trades in one business") apparently contemplated the formation of unions similar to the two tramways' officials' unions referred to. In 1917 the Court wag asked only as to the registration of such unions; the question as to the Court's jurisdiction to make an award waa not raised then.

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