INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE CONCILIATION MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1914, Page 4

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE CONCILIATION MATTERS.

The Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. P. Hally), returned from Greymouth this week While at Greymouth he dealt with the engine-drivers' dit-pute. Only a partial agreement was arrived at, and the question of wages will be referred to the Arbitration Court. At Westport, before Mr. Hally, an agreement was arrived at between the Westport Harbour Board and its employees, and will be made an industrial agreement. Mr. Hally will leave to-night for Collingwood, Nelson, in connection with the coal mining dispute at Puponga between the Puponga Miners' Union and the Seaford Coal Company. The dispute will come up for hearing on Thursday morning. If possible, Mr. Hally will return to Wellington on Saturday morning, and continue the hearing of the Wellington tramways dispute. There v is, so ' Mr. Hally informed a Post representative to-day^ a big probability of the whole of this dispute being settled to the satisfaction of the parties concerned. Mr. Hally will leaya on Monday next for Palmerston North, in connection with the Palmerston North painters' dispute. This dispute has been practically settled, the only question which remains open for consideration now being the adding and striking out of parties. On Thursday, 9th April, Mr. Hally will hold a sitting of the Conciliation Council in his room, to consider the adding of parties 'to the Wellington shipwrights' dispute. This dispute will, in all probability, be forwarded to the Court.