CASES AGAINST WHARF LABOURERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 76, 1 April 1910, Page 8

CASES AGAINST WHARF LABOURERS.

In moving an adjournment of a ca^e tonceriiing a number ol wharf hibouveib who will bo chained with unlawlully irtining work in llu> discharge of the .-teamer Wanuka on the 261h Februaiy la>t, Mr. C. E. Aldridge, of (he Labour Department, intimated to the Court today that the majority of the Minimon.ses had not yet been served. He xaid that there were about 49 wh'aif labourers to .serve .altogether, and he a--ked that they be s-erved with notice at the ofhVe of the Wharf Labourers' Union on the wharf, in order to .save fuither trouble. "1 have eveiy re«'».von to believe, your Worship, that the men nro doint; their \eiy be-vt to avoid horvl«p, and, in fact, it i-- almost impossible <o ;-erve them pei.-onally nn tho wharf. From the cent™ of the Court, speaking on behalf of hi« fellow workeis, John Dowelall (one of the defendant*.) said : "They found my nddrf"*, your Woraiiip, and I don't see why they caul find the other*." "Perhaps they know you," Migfce.sted the magistrate. The request as to the bervire wa.s allowed, mid the L-a e es weie adjourned till Monday , the 18th inht., in oi;der to suit the defpndsmt*.' tonvemence, it being pointed out by Dowdall that Monday was a clack day on the wharf. Mr. F. H. Chamberlain, who baa been appointed nuiiiajjinjj engii»eer of the Wc-tport-HtOcktou Coal Cumpany, passed through Wellington yesterday. Mr. Chamberlain luih returned from an extended trip through America, with v. flying visit to England and the Continent. A* engineer to the Chri«ti-hurrli Tramway Hoard Mr. Chamberhtiii gained considerable reputation a* an electrical engineer. While in America he arted a> confirm lion:ti engineer for the General KlednV Compuny. He \\a» miii-h impressed with the i*mmen»p progre«» made in the application of electrical nower in Anien<;». The Wehtpoit>Sio< ktou CrtinimnyV mine at Ngaknwau, on the We.-i Const, will give Air. Chamberlain f iiuher *(oj>e, n* eler-tricity enteis largely into i(« working. The llev. William .Tellie, of Auckland, arrived in Wellington from the North yesteiday. He i>« "to occupy the Unitarian pulpit for the •lext three Sundays. Mr. Jellie i.- a giaduate «if London U*nivernitv and the author of several iontributiom ot interest ou the theologitaJ queitkuu of the day.