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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 108, 3 November 1909, Page 6

In an explanatory circular accompanying the Hon. 3Slr. Guinness's National Sick and Accident Insurance Bill, read at the Furniture Workers' Conference to-day, it was stated that three insurance offices doing business in New Zealand had received £122 000 iv pre. raiunis in two years. ••, -^ The advocates of a forty-foxir hours'week for the fui«niS.ure-w.orkeiis ,con» tended yesterday, 5.% the conference, that the introduction of the shorter hours had in no way diminished the output in phristchurch. At the tame time, it was contended that there were very few unemployed in the trade in thaij city during the depression. With regard to the search by the Union Castle liner Sabine for the missing Waratah, a wrong impression has. been created in Wellington to-dasr through the circulation of a report by a morning contemporary that the ShawSavill steamer lonic spoke the Sabine by means of wireless telegraphy five days after leaving the Cape. The statement is incorrect. As reported in yesterday's Post, it was hoped by those on tho lonic to receive communication from the Sabine, but no message was recorded. Lieut. Holland, the second officer of tha lonic, states that the instrument was dismantled after leaving that region of the Southern Ocean in which it was likely that a message from the Sabine would be received.