DUNEDIN NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 280, 19 August 1908, Page 3

DUNEDIN NOTES.

(Di TEM3GUAFH —SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.) August 18. : In tho Arbitration Court to-day tlio Secretary of tho Taratu Coal Company submitted a statement showing tho amount of wages a certain miner would liavo earned had he been paid the rates now offered by the Company. The daily average was 13s. 6d. for a period of eighty-eight days.' Tho rates now asked by the men would increaso the mail's earnings from 13s. (3d. to £1 a day. ■ Tho Otago Harbour Board is framing a by-law for the purpose of compelling all machine-propelled boats to carry lights when in motion after dark. For tho Dunedin competitions 812 entries have beon received, as against 751 last year. Sunday Concerts.—'Two Offers. As tho outcome of tho City Council's re.fusal to allow the Kaikorai Band to give Sunday concerts in aid of tho expenses for tho .trip to tlio Ballarat competitions, Mr. T. B. Nicholls last night mado the band an offer from tho No-Licenso party to guarantee the whole of the balance necessary to take the banc! to Ballarat, viz., £100. Tho money was to be raised by a series of Saturday night popular concerts, towards the programmes of which tho band_ would be expected to give liberal support in the matter of band pieces and solo work; There would be no temperance speaking at tho concerts. Mr. Nicholls explained that the object of his society in making this offer was twofold: (1) To prove to the people that .the* churchgoing folk, though they had a strenuous objection to' anything that threatened to undermine the sanctity of the Sabbath and turn it into a money-making day like the other six, still had a genuine desire to help the band and to secure their being, able to tako part in the Ballarat contest; (2) a desire to provide some counter attraction to the , present prevalence ■-of drinking among young men on Saturday' nights. The band also received another offer, this being from the R-ev. Wm. Thomson, who is Secretary to the Licensed Victuallers' Association, to assist in _ conducting Divine services, to bo held in His Majesty's Theatre. Tho first service will bo held next Sunday, evening. Mr. Thomson has engaged to obtain the sum of , £120 • for ■ tho band; this assures their going to Ballarat for the competitions. One condition of Mr. Thomson's offer was that tho services must not-be political in any sense, and that no'reference would be made either to licensri or 110licenstf. Tho band decided to accept Mr. Thomson's offer.