SHEEPOWNERS' DEMANDS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 118, 20 May 1907, Page 7

SHEEPOWNERS' DEMANDS.

[rnr teleceai-ii. — ppess association.] BLL..IIEIM, This Day. Skecpowners of the district have formed a- strong committee to demand from tho Chxiitchurch Moat Company the right of iiandliug their own billrj of lading in lecpect to frozen mutton and lamb. A deputation is to wait on the directors this week. If the lcqucSt ia declined, it is intended to tyke other steps. There is general dissatisfaction at tho price per lb for frccsira r.s compared With that in Canterbury.

A long list of applications for enforccroosit of awaids came before the Arbitration Court to-day. No less than 49 caaos alleging bi caches of th& cooks and waiters' award were set down for hearing. Mr. W. A. W. Grenfell, secretary of the Employers' Federation, again attacked Iho Cooks and waiters' award, and caid Ihc employers were labouring under a heavy disadvantage on account of an unfortunate mistake on tho part of a couit official. This, howevor, was only urged in mitigation of penalties. Daring tho hearing of ths ca'ics th:s point more as io wheth'r one waitress or waiter, where only tTvo are empioyed, is a head wnitrcr.i or waiter withla tho moaning of tho agreement. Mr. Juitico S ; m naid the question conld not bo nnsv/ercd offhand. An application for interpretation would have to be rasdo in the ordinary way. (^applying liquor to John Kiely, a person nlreidy in-SBtsto of int;xic:rtion, and p'rmittiny cirmikesnrn on hi-, pTPiui&f?. wan the nature of two charges preferred at tho Magistrate's Coart, to-dny, against Alex Snr.itb, licenrco of the Cricketers' Arms Hotel. The informations were heard by Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., Sub-In-rpactor O'Donovaa appearing for ihe police, «nd Me'Ers. Gray and Blair for tbe defence. After bearing „ a number of witnesses, hia Worchip said he would read Iho evidence over anil glvo judgment to mono* momi-ftf.