A CONCILIATION BOARD CASE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 41, 18 February 1908, Page 8

A CONCILIATION BOARD CASE.

[bt telkgeaph.— peebs association.] CARTERTON, This Day. A delegation from the Boaid of Conciliation sitting in Masterton in reference to the butter. creamery, and cheese factory workers demand, visited the factories here yesterday afternoon and ascertained that the men were quite satisfied. They worked an average of 9 hours per diem, and received a wage ranging from £2 to £2 10s according to time and season. None of the men attended flic meeting of the Conciliation Board.

A steamer with mails aboard left San Francisco for Auckland on the 14th insfc. The Benevolent Institution Trustees at their meeting this afternoon were informed'that the inmates in the Ohiro Home to date numbered 101, of whom 68 were males. Mr. F. G. Bolton, as a new trustee, stated that he paid a surprise visit to the Home this morning and was much impressed with tho satisfactory condition of the institution, the I arrangements made for the health and comfort of the inmates, and the highly satisfactory management of the Home by Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Truebridge, the master and matron respectively. An elocutionary and musical treat is promised those who attend the entertainment to be held at the Missions to Seamen on Friday next. Tho proceeds of the concert will augment the new organ fund. The Hon. Jas M'Gowan has consented lo open the fifth annual siunmeT show of the Hutt Valley Horticultural Society to-morrow, at the Drill Hall, at 3 p.m. Afternoon tea will be available, Jind the Hutt orchestra will be in attendance. Messrs. Harcourt and Co. announce the i following auction sale at their rooms, 40, j Lambton-quay, on Friday next, 21st inst., at 2.30 p.m. : — Piece of land having a frontage of 40ft to Nelson-street by a depth of 90ft, being part of section 288, City of Wellington, together with the two-atoried building erected thereon. Iho residence contains bpvou rooms, and is known as No. l\, Nelson-Ftrect, cloie to trams nnd Ba«in Re-nerve. In consequence of the growth of tha clasbes formed at Banks's Commercial College for study for tho matriculation and Civil Horvice examination 1 !, the management states that it has become necessary .to increase the »Uff. An arrangement has been made accordingly with Mr. F. P Wilson, M.A., of Wellington, who will _^tliß_cend^ct Pl.these^.clßjeei. - J