LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1277, 4 November 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tho postal authorities advise that tho s.s- Jlaheno, which sailed from Sydney at •i p.m. on November 1 for Auckland,'has on board an Australian mail and also an English mail, via Suez. Tho Wellington portion is due to arrive hero by Jiaia rrunk ou Monday next, November G.

At tho invitation of tho Wellington Technical School Board the members of tho ■'Uollmgton Education Board will inspect the cookery department of tho school on Tuesday next at 12.30 p.m. Luncheon cooked by the students will be provided

Announcements regarding to-morrow's church services will bo found on paeo 2 of this issue.

Several prisoners will oomo up for sentence, before the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) in the Supreme Court this morning. They are Walter Henry Marshy), breaking and entering and theft, at Welington; Herbert Metford, theft from a dwelling at Napier; John Keogh, theft from a dwelling at Napier; Heilrv Edward Whiteman and Leonard Edwards, arson and breaking and entering and theft at Upper Ifutt.

The Plumbers' Union has failed to conic to an agreement with the employers as to the dispute which has arisen in the trade, and a ballot of members is now being taken as to whether the caso shall bo taken before a Conciliation Council. The new demands from tho union are for a 41 hours' instead of o ti hours' week, donblc-timo rates instead o£ time and a quarter, and time- nud a half for overtime, and wages at the rate of Is. Od. per hour, instead of Is. id. and Is. sd. New provisions arc, asked for making the indenturing of apprentices obligatory, and making it comnulsory on eniplovors (o allow boys two "naif-days off per week to attend Technical School classes in Oio first three years of their apprenticeship. A new preference clause, in favour of union employees, and of emplovcrs who arc members of tho Master Plumbers' Union is in tho demands.