(PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ARBITRATION COURT AWARDS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 74, 27 March 1912, Page 3

(PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ARBITRATION COURT AWARDS

DRIVERS AND CARRIERS. CHRISTCHURCH, 26th March. The award of the Arbitration Court in the dispute between the Drivers' Union and the Christchurch City Council provides .that a week's work will be 49 hours in the case of a driver driving and attending to one horse, and 51 hours when driving and attending io two horsea. Wages: One horse driver, not less than 49s per week; two horses, 51s per week; overtime not less than Is 6d per hour, except in attending on horses, when the rate shall be Is lgd; work done between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., 2s per hour, with a minimum of 4s. Preference of employment to be given members of the union. In the carriers' dispute the hours were fixed at 48 per week; wages Is 3d per hour. Employers may arrange with a worker to do work as piecework when a log has been j agreed upon' by theunion. Qualified preference ii given to unionists. SERIOUS ACCIDENT. I AUCKLAND, 26th March. ■ A man named George Taylor 4 employed as engine-driver by the Takapuna Tramway Company, met with a serious accident to-night. Taylor stepped ' between the engine and' a car, and was caught between the buffers, his leg being practically crushed in two. t GREATER NEW PLYMOUTH. NEW PLYMOUTH, 26th March. A poll taken to-day to ,merge St. Aubyn town district, and so complete the Greater New Plymouth scheme and enable the trams to be proceeded with, resulted: For the proposal, 102 j against, COMING EXHIBITION. AUCKLAND 26th March. The forthcoming Exhibition is already assured of being placed upon a sound financial footing. During the past few days the president and members of the executive committee have been engaged in an active canvass of business men and firms of the city obtaining guarantors. The original object was to secure guarantors totalling £5000, but so great has been the success attending their efforts that the sum 'naniod has already been ov er-guaranteed. AUCKLAND MAYORALTY. AUCKLAND, 26th March. The Mayoral elections for the city and suburbs take place on 24th April. The rolls were closed to-day. In a number of the boroughs it is anticipated that when the city roll is counted it will contain upwards of 25,000 names. SIR JOSEPH WARD'S RETIREMENT i DUNEDIN, 26th March. At a meeting of supporters of the Liberal Party at Palmerston, a motion was carried conveying to Sir Joseph Ward high appreciation of the signally able manner in which he has guided the destinies of the Country for the past six yeare, and expressing the hope that he would, at tho earliest opportunity, assume the leadership of the Liberal and Progressive Party, because it was not fair that the country should be deprived of the services of the first htutefinian iv the land. INVERCARGILL TRAMWAYS OPENED IN'VEItCAItGILL, 26th March. Therb v.a.6 bad weather for the opening of the new electric car seivice today, but a big crowd turned out, ard the function was it grat biiccc^s>. 'j be fe\stem is an excellent one, a-nd ha* passed all tests satisfactorily. The cars are large ami rocniy, and a,ie well lighted. Tho street lighting from the ti-am-way poles is a featuie ot the system. The main streets • are probably better lighted than almost any other town.