INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE. GENERAL LABOURERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 46, 24 February 1908, Page 3

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE. GENERAL LABOURERS.

An apphraticn has be-?n .fi'ed by the Wellington Gr-neril L.ibourrra' lrduitnal Union of Workers for tho oxteaslon of the existing award to tie -nhole of the Wellington industrial ciuhict. Its piovisiorts at propent z r e lisr.t^'. to an area within a radrao of tv/snty iailcr> from th»> ; ci'.y. 'Iho mso will be Jiouni wfni'o tlu Conriliation Board as ;con as a d.ita cnn !br fiicd. ' j, Ihe ek : ms of the ivv.nn r?for to hours of woik. r.itrn cf v. nges, ove-lt/ae, ho'id.ijs. acrommodution, yubrrhm v, ork, avd pteitveii.-fe. Hours of v oi-> „re spr cifif.l jnd hmltn l I to -^6^,n on cir-n day rom.r.crciiif,' ■ ut 7.30 a.m. and, eiccpi on Ihttrdr'.fl" I ending at 5 p.m. ' Uiffrrent rates aie daimcl for tlio dittVtont classes of workers :--lun:iei work— Tur.ufl m-n. 11s per shift; timber mm, 11? pp r shift; ull other woil.crs, 10p 6d per fchifi unriprjjroaijfl. Quarry work— F-0-.vder and crusher men, ]? b-J per hour: <illiara, 1»^(] p^.r houi. Build-iii»&—Labo-j'fis 0;) ]p M ; j oth<T-, 1? .Meat workc— Vnrir-s frcm ■ If- 6'i io 1-. 5Jd per hour. Goaoral— j Curl.my; ai>«l chirn-'llmc or , ns^iinr, |'ls fid; othe.-s, Is 4it| V- not utlieiwiru I Hppcifird, Ij> .yjfrl. Perawnot hands. v:hn<> no deductions, me m;<dc fcr v-ffc v. ntlicr or holidays, ,1 minimum wage of c Ji ,\ day. j Overtime is claiin«Td at rate of timu and a half^for the fiv S t two hoars, and tboieafter at the rate of double time Work done on Good Fiiday, Chiistmas Day, and on Sunday is to be rntcd double time, n^rf on all other hdldiys time and j half. il'e us-j cf life ropes, piovi&ion 'or trcLiisportation on sul^urbdn M-ork. nrd piL-fercncc. to unioni^ta are also claimed.

That a s man may have a consuming ! passion for Hip law, and yet find ample; time for hobbies., is evidenced in Kit Ford North, P.C., who recently celebrated the seventy-eighth anniversary of his birthday. As a Q.C., and aft"rvoid's us a Chinccry Jiulg-\ lip won respect ami fn.iio (not alviiys m-.us), and on'y Inicl avMo his '.vsg and gown .ibdut r-Ivhi yours ago. Then he turned with lcnowed aidcur to Wn butterflies and moths, v ith whom he had flirted, speaking scientifically, ir the scant leisure of his 1c5.1l career Attached ti h:''. ho"ic :s ;i ;ni.'.cm:i con tainmg some of the raieot specimens oi uisect lifo.