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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 55, 6 March 1914, Page 6

'Iho mails which left Wellington on 30th Jauuaiy per R.M.S. Moana, arrived in via San Francisco, on the sth hist., three days late. Two apprentices on board the Govern., moiit training vessel Amokurn, who desorted on Sunday afternoon, and wero seen passing through Khan'dallah that evening, were returned to the vessel by the police. The parents of one of theboys reside in Auckland. The other boy belongs to Wellington. It is proposed by the Petone Bovouuh. Council to take the vote of ratepayers on the question of raising ' loans for the motor-'biiß and beach improvement schemes, on 29th April next. Ratepayers will not be asked to vote on the total amount (£9000), it having been decided to BUbiml the two 'tsues separately, That portion of the report recently submitted to the Harbour Board by its engineer, Mr. J, W. Marchbanks. which dealt with the question of removing the accumulation of gravel at the mouth of the Hutt River, came before the Hutt River Board at its meeting last evennig. After a short discussion, Wig chair, wan, Mr. H. Baldwin, was deputed to interview Mr. G. Laing-Meason, 0.X., with a view to obtaining a report on the same matter, and also in regard to a river protection scheme. Mention was made before Mr. Justice Hoskmg yesterday of the civil case, Archibald Arthur Brown v. Frank Hadfield and Ralph Hadfield, claim for £282? 10s damages for the destruction of certain flax property near Waikanae. At the hearing, which took place in Wellington in September, 3912, tho jury found in favour of the plaintiff, and it remained for the amount of damages to bo fixed by arbitration. Yesterday, by consent of the parties; his Honour entered judgment for the plaintiff for an amount fixed by the arbitrators. Mr. A., de B. Brandon, jun., appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. X -F. Hadfield represented the defendants. Mr. James J. M'Callum, North Shore, Sydney, writes contradicting "Lover of Surf's" version of the lescue of two young men ,at Lyall Bay laat Saturday. As an eye-witness of the incident Mr. M'Callum states that Mr. Mmifie did not havo a hand in the rescue. The work; our correspondent contends, was done entirely by the member of the Lyall Bay Surf Club, under tlieir captain, Mr. E. Reid. There was a heavy sea, and every credit was due to the. club and to Mr. Reid, who swam out and succeeded in throwing a line to tho men in distress and assisted them ashore. Mr. M'Callum, who ig return' ing to Sydney to-day, wishes the Lyall Bay Surf Club, every success in its (Stood work.'' T "When I was in Sydney," said Mr. T. O'Byrne, president of the Sawmill Workers' Federation of New Zealand (who has just returned from a trip to Australia) to a Post reporter. " I was „ greatly struck with the orderliness of the- largo body of meat trade employees on strike. Between 7000 and 10,000 men were affected, and there was not the slightest trouble. In fact, you would hardly have known there was a strike on, except for the crowd of men round the Trades Hall. / Of course, up to that time there had. been no attempt to start free labour." Ah indicating how profitable had been tho strike to other tradesmen, Mr. O'Byrne mentioned that when he was in the New South Wales capital rabbits were selling as high as Is 6d each instead of 0d a pair, and flounders realised as high as 12s 6d a> dozen, instead \>f 4s 6d. That mtich'discufised structure, tha Petone wharf, will be turned to pi\ii!« tica.l use next week, the Petone Borough Council having arranged for a eupply of "280 tons of Greymouth coal for ronKumption t &t the municipal gasworks. The coal will be brought to the wharf directj and it is expected that the Anchor steamer Alexander will leave drey mouth o"h Sunday next with the consignment aboard. In the past the gas* coal has been railed from wal» lington to Petone, but. owing to the shortage of railway trucks, the council has found it necessary to devise other means for maintaining the supply, ff the experiment proves .profitable, it is understood that further shipments of coal will be landed at the Petone wharf. ♦ The Alexander's shipment will be the first coal to pa«s over the suburban "white elephant." , _ Regulations made by the Public Service Commissioner for the conduct of tho 1 Government Printing Office are gazetted. Among other things, it is provided that it shall be the duty of the Government Printer annu&lry to furnish the Commissioner with a report on each officer and employee. In the event of any member of, the staff feeling aggrieved with, any decision of the Government Printer af* fecting a himself personally or the branch in which he .serves, permission will b« given such member to state the gr6\ind*s of his dissatisfaction, in writing, to tho Commissioner. Each % appeal shall be handed to the Government Printer, who shall forward it to the Commissioner within four days, together with such remarks or explanation a* he feels called upon to make. Tho decision appealed against shall remain in force until (such time as the decision of the Commissioner is given. Tho Labour Disputes Investigation Bill, which comes into force cm Ist April, was subjected to some strong criticism by Mr. D. Moriarty. secretary of tha Furniture Trade Workers' Union, in the course of conversation with a reporter of this paper. Mr. Moviavty said that during, the passage of the Bill none of the evidence taken in connection wit)) the Bill before the Labour Bills Committee) of the House was printed and supplied to members. This evidenco had since, however, been printed and circulated, a»id showed that no single person wh& gave evidence before the Labour Bills Committee was in favour of the Bill. lie was astonished in reading the ovi« donee to find that Mr. D. M'Lareii, giving evidence on bcltalt" of the execu> tivo of the Labour Party, and the Hon. John Barr, representing several •of tho South Canterbury workers' unions, both allowed themselves to be questioned during tlte course of their evidenco by Mr. Orcnfell, representing the employers' ns 1 sociation. The position to-day was that under the Arbitration Act itself any 6pdy of workers could strike without giving a minute's notice to their employers, and this was the reason why these workers had come under the Arbitration Act. whereas the Labour Disputes Investigation Bill made it a condition that workers, before going on strike, must give at least fourteen days' notice of then 1 intention of so doing, and- must nlso take a secret ballot of their menibms on the question, this secret ballot being supervised by the Labour Department. Experienced travellers always check their baggage through us. We colled, check by rail or sea, deliver at far end at once. The N.Z. Express Co., 87-91, Customhouse-quay.— Advt. Strike! Slriket the world over. No matter what, papers wo pick wp, we rend of strikes in gome comer of the globe. And why is this fctato of unrest continuing? Simply becftiißo people are dissatisfied for Bonio reason or another, Wo often, wonder whether both striker* *nd nen-' strikers have really been Btruek with the wonderful values at Messrs. C. Smith, Ltd., who, in our opinion, make every onq feol satisfied. Wo noticed a lino of ladies' knitted wool unprts coats there nb Cm lid, which exools anything wo % have ever h'ecu, and Wo do not know of a chop anywhere) so homely as 0. Smith's, Ltd.y of 96, Cuba-street, Wellingtott.— Advk.