SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. DUNEDIN NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 26, 31 January 1908, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. DUNEDIN NOTES.

[Bt Teiegbai>h.— SrEciAL to The Post.] LABOUR SCARCE. DUNEDIN, This Day. Pick and shovel men appear to bo at a premium just now. The, Labour Department has received word from the Public Works Department stating that it requires forty additional men for the Catlin's railway works. Thirty are also required for" the Mosgiel duplication work. Owing to harvesting there is a scarcity of labour, and there is <i difficulty in getting hands for railway formation. BUILDING BRISK. A local architect says that the buildir>s trade is quite as brisk at present as it has been for the past few years. In addition to the many buildings now in hand there are plenty of orders for others to bo erected. TROUBLE THREATENING. Trouble among the lumpers is threatened, as a meeting of the Wharf Labourers' Union is called for Monday night to consider the question of cancelling their registration under the Arbitration Act. The - workers say. that they have endeavoured to arrange an amicable agreement with the employers, but without success. The delegates who attended the conference with the employ6rs complain that tho other side would not let them know what they dispgrced with, and it is now felt that the time has 'arrived when the union must crnsidcr what other means it can adopt to get proper industrial conditions. ACCLIMATISING LOBSTERS. *" Efforts of the- Marino Fish Hatchery Board to acclimatise in Otago English lobsters promise to be successful, "One of ths ten lobsters recently imported has produced eggs. This is claimed' to be the first authenticated case of a lobster bringing forth eggs during captivity. The young lobsters may be looked for in October, which is the hatching month in New Zealand.