GENERAL LABOURERS' CLAIMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 74, 30 March 1910, Page 7

GENERAL LABOURERS' CLAIMS.

[BI TELEGRAPH — PKESS ASSOCIATION.} DUNEDIN, This Day. The Conciliation Commissioner this morning met delegates from local bodies and representatives of the General Labourers' Union interested in work controlled by local bodies. Applications for exemption by the City Council and the Harbour Board were opposed by Mr. M'Manus, representing the Labourers' Union, but were granted by Mr. Triggs, the commissioner.

During the Easter holidays a little boy, while playing on the green sward behind the caretaker's cottage, fell into the smaller of the two reservoirs at Karori. The caretaker (Mr. Robinson) was, fortunately, close by, and soon brought the little fellow back to safety. Th» incident, hewavar, shculd act eg a warning. The sal* of tickets for th« Victoria College bazaar, which is to bt opentd by Mrs. Newman (Mayoress) at 3 p.m. on Friday next, has been brisk. Parcels of goods of all descriptions are daily arriving from students and their friends living in the countrj', and there is every indication that the stalls will be particularly well stocked with Faleable goods, both awful »nd" ornamental. There will be nn exhibition of fancy dancing each afternoon, and for the evening a concert has oeen arranged, in which Mist Mftbtl H»rding«-Maltby and ,Mr. A. >V. Newton sill &« J>»rt.