MORE LABOUR DEMANDS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1912, Page 7

MORE LABOUR DEMANDS.

TALLY CLERKS ON AUCKLAND WHARVES. ffli !£«LX6BA?A-'fßt:Sd ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, This Day. Some of the tally clerks employed on the wharves declined to start work this Morning under_ the present pay- I—ls1 — Is 3d per hour — coflsid&iing the Work worth as uuch as that paid the waterside workers, ,ho, under the new award, will receive is 5d per hour from Thursday next. The jonipaniea have promised to consider. the position. The , place* of the men who ceased work were promptly filled. FLAXMILUNG INDUSTRY. SWAME HANDS' DEMANDS.' PALMEBSTON N., This Day. The new demands by the swamp hands in the flax industry have been presented to the millers, and as some have not been agreed to there is a possibility of trouble. At a meeting of the Flaxmill Employees' Clnion, the following resolution was pawed:—"That this meeting express regret at the unsatisfactory' replies received irom the Flaxmillers' Association to^ their requests for alteration of the conditions of work of the men employed in the swamps — that the union requests an immediate answer to each of the clauses embodied in their claims, and, failing this, they will call a jams meeting to deal with the matter, either with or without the Induetrial Conciliation and Arbitration ( Act." The demands deal mainly with conditions of work, and only indirectly with remuneration. The work is almost entirely piece-work. '

The meeting in connection with the plasterers' dispute Will be held at 2.30 o'clock to-morrow, at the Trades and Labour Cc-andlte room*. The> clergy of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington will commence their annual retreat at St. Patrick's College this evening, A special meeting of the Petone Borough Council will be held this evening to appoint an assistant town ,clerk About thirty-seven application* were received tot the position, and these have now been narrowed down to four. At the- annual meeting of the Napier Gm Company, held to-day, it was (states a Press Association telegram) decided that a further dividend amounting to £5533 17s (3d be paid and the balance of profit (£1622 118 9d) carried forward. Mr. E. W. Knowles was re-elect-ed chairman of director*. To-morrow, at 2 p.m., Messrs. J. H. Bethune and Co. »111 bold an auction sale of furniture, pianos, curios, fishing rods, bicycle, etc. Pianos by Rappoldi and Chappell »re being offered, aiio double mahogany wardrobe stud linen pms, dining room sideboard, bmß-mounted bedstead, easy oak chair, eta, At 5 p.m. there is also being offered an oil painting ( Lake Manapouri") by W. O. Baker. There are, many in Wellington^who will U interested to hear that Dr. W. T. P. Woolston, M.D., of Edinburgh, will be passing through the city by next Friday's rteamer en route for lingland. Dr. Woolgtda, besides having carried on an extensive medical practice ia Edinburgh, has sustained an Evangeligtia ministry -in that city for over forty years. H& is the writer of many books of theology, and is the editor of the Gospel Messenger, a monthly magazine now in its forty-first year of exiisteaea. Dr. Woolston hae consented to apeak at a meeting in tha V.M.C.A. *t 1 p.m., and at 3 p.m. in the Masonic Hall, Bpulcott-tslreot, on Friday afternoon, as will b$ neon from the advertisement in this JMUO4