THE MALTSTER'S OCCUPATION

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 442, 26 February 1909, Page 2

THE MALTSTER'S OCCUPATION

1 A QUESTION OF HEALTH. (Bf TELUGRAPiI- SPECIAL COUIiESI'ONDENT.)

' ■;!■,■•.: ; ''v..'.'■■■"• . ' Chrlstohurchj February 23. i i , .: At the Arbitration•:Court yesterday,: the. representative of the.Maltsters and Brewers' ■Industrial led "'evidence : to ■ shpw ; that' the conditions Mm3er which , a maltster worked were- bad , ..for his 'health. :;.\Vheit the employers' representative .was about. to'.'answer' later, Mr. Justice. Sim stopped- him. with. "There is hardly a business Zealand that is healthy,, according to'the evidence we: get/in tho Court." ■'• " '■':'■■■ ■) ~\<. .U[ ■•.■.■■■ ■;:■' .:i .-• In the. course.of evidence; for the.union, Walter Bloodj malthouseand brewery hand,' said :that he. had ■;. known [■ many .men whose health :had been impaired by.the'heit of the: kilns and the dust from the' sidered that the malthoiise hands iwere worth ss'.: ; a ■week-more '.than;--those working in: a: brewery..- ■j;\: ! 'r : '■:::■;;}? ■■ ■'■' ; .;:-;-:: ; . ; :o; ■: .'. ' • ■ jThe'Hon. ! Mr. .Louisson ptatod : that in'one brewery'one maltster had beenemplbyedfroni 'the ■ ago of twenty-five. years;until :he';was . seventy, , and . had never : been ill. j Another ivas.,now seventy-five years of: : age.and had never suffered any ill effects; : : ;,- ■'■',: -/,..,■ .George. ,M'Phee, ■'.'inalthouse-^hand- •:-;and brewer, said that when he worked in.'a malthouse'he always had'a fbad cough.l.lHe had been in a green kiln when it was impossible to see "your hand 'before.you";- because: of the.steam. In Dunedin.he had been in'a kiln with", the. temperature at 210 degrees. , ,ln Chriatchurch the highest;temrterature he.had experienced was 200 degrees) Dut. he had also known 190 degrees..-. ; : r -.j : -,' ■■':., -^ ..;-,;;:,. -.. On tho hand, Charles Flavell,. head maltster at the Christohurch Seed Company's malthouse, said that he had been employed.in a malthouse for sixteen:yeara and .had ex-. perienced.no ill-health. In. the kilns the heat never, went higher than;. 190-.degrees, -but when : the. men -went into it. the. : doors., and.windows;.were opened,;and the heat was much lower. , : ■...,;' '•."■■.■•. ■..':'■: ::■'■'''■' : . U , '". '■"• .-.-, .-.-.■