25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 185, 4 May 1936, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

Wages of Labourers (From "The Dominion.'* Muy 6. 1011.1 It is understood that one of rhe first questions that will be tested by Labour section of the Wellington City Council will be ns to whether labourers in the employ of the city corporation should receive 8/- or 9/- a day. Sir Junies Mills (managing director of the Union Steam Ship Company) who is patwing through Auckland on his way to Canada and England, interviewed on ’ the much-discussed question of the time occuped by the company’s steniners between Sydney and Auckland and _ the possibility of accelerating the services, said: "I must confess that my own feel ing is that in view of possible develop mente in respect to the propulsion ot steamers in the near future, we shottl.l be content at present with our titteen knot services. It seems possible that, m fore long, the internal combustion machine-engine may become an accom plished fact, and this will genetiilly iea<i to further great developments in cor. nection with steamers, both for passer ger and cargo purposes.” [Fifteen kno's gives a run of three days 14 hours between Sydney and Auckland. I

A proposal to shorten the train route to Karori by the construction of a 'line through Hill Street to join with the Tinaltori Road line near the I’r’me tor’s residence i# to be brought befote th* city council by the mayor, with a view to having a report on the merits of the scheme by the city engineer authorised.