PERSONAL REFERENCES.
SCENE IN ARBITRATION COURT. | (rRES3 ASSOCIATION TELEOBAII,) ! .WELLINGTOX, November 26. • Occurrences following on tho intervention of Mr F. Turley in the timber workers' caso at tho Arbitration Court on behalf of the timber-workers on the Main Trunk-line were quite out of tho ordinary. Mr B. L.- Hammond, the employers' representative, and Mr John Read, secretary of . tho Wellington • Timber Workers' Union, presented a solid front to Mr Turley, secretary of tho New Zea-
Jand Timber Workers' Federatioa, who sought to' oppose tha registraiwa of the agreement. which bad l»eea reached at the Conciliation Council. Tho references to one another tvt-r® not of the kindiy type, and eventual!* - after Mr Head had alluded to Mr Tur« ley as being as "slippery as an e*l and as elusive as a wasp," Mr Tsrlv* rotortcd: "Anyway, 1 've never t-kra a bribe." Mr Head fumed round and lunged o« with his "right," which, however. <ivi not connect, with Mr Turley, who JsaJL taken cover under a table. Mr Glover, president of th<» Al!iaac4 of Labour, who was near Mr Read, "was equally in danger of a knock-oat, baj| just escaped the full force of the b'<vr. j Messrs Read and Turley t apologised to tho Court, and the vffloceedings were resumed.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18241, 27 November 1924, Page 11
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