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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1908, Page 8

SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE.

THE GOVERNMENT'S LABOUR | LAWS. [BT TEL2GHAPH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, This Day. A teleijrarh messenger, signing himself as "One of the Oppressed," has written to the Trades and Labour Council, drawing attention to the fact that tho department compelled them to woik fifteen hour? on Christmas Eve and four hours on Christmas and Boxing Days, without payment for overtime. The counc ! derided to send a copj of the resolution to tho Fosf-niaster-Gonoral, expressing deep regret that a Government vhicli had placed laws on tho statute book ameliorating the condition of the o> <rk"''-j was sweating its employees, esr^iallv ;n; n thb Postmaster-General's Department.

An inlerpstin^ addilion was muda to the Asiatic alien, population to-day, when ;i little Chinese gir) arrived from Sydney in chaigi of a hidy missionary who is visiting Kcw Zealand on furlough. The girl wa« saved from a violent dontk by the missionary, who has kept lier ever since, and intends training her as a lady doctor for woik among her own v,-omen in China. Bhe is not remaining in New Zealand, but an undertaking has been entered into to pay the poll tax of £100 should she fail to leave the Dominion. A& ti matter of fact the girt will accompany her guardian when she reiurns to the East. Mr. C A XI. Chapman, of the City Tramways Office rtalT, was married to Miss Helen Flowing at the Kent-ter-race Presbyterian Church ywtetfiay.