CARPENTERS' DISPUTE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 20, 25 January 1911, Page 8

CARPENTERS' DISPUTE.

FINALITY NOT YET REACHED. No final settlement has yet been, arrived at by the Conciliation. Council in reference to the dispute between the Wellington branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, and the builders, and other employers concerned, in the district. Considerable argument, extending over two and a half days, has already been heard by the council, which sat at the Supreme Court again yesterday. The sitting was confined to a discussion of the demands of the men in reference to the questions of hours, wages, and preference. Difficulty was, in particular, experienced by the council in attempting to fix the rate of wages. When the conference Tose, it is said that the difference between the men's demands in this respect and the scale of wages advanced by the employers, did not exceed a half-penny per hour. The council, which is presided over by Mr. P. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, adjourned until 7th February, there being hopes of a final and definite settlement being arrived at in the meantime.

Messrs. J. W. Braithwaite and Co. will sell by auction, at the City Auction Mart, Manners-street, co-morow, at 2 p.m., household furniture and effects, together with three sets gig and trap harness. _ Tho Kaiapoi Borough Council is advertising in this issue for tenders for repairs to the Kaiapoi Traffic Bridge (labour only, and labour and material), and for the supply of timber and ironmongery. Messrs. Nodine and Co., Ltd., ladies' tailors, Wellington-terrace, advertise eestumes of new materials and in newsiyles. Applications are invited by the aeere- [ t«y ;to tho Marina Department {or the