NOTES FROM DUNEDIN
ACCIDENTS TO BOILERMAKERS. FINE FLOWER SHOW. (»T TELEGRAPH— SPECIAL TO TH* POST.) DUNEDIN, This Day. The proprietor of the Wiuonui (Milton) Coal Company has been notified that the company's tender for the supply of 5000 tons of brown coal to the Railway Department has been accepted. While there is no building boom, it 5s admitted that trade locally is promising for early winter. The Hon. J. E. Jenkinsou, in referring to the dangerous nature of a boilermaker's work, told the Arbitration Court that there were more cases of Joss of sight by men employed in the trade in Dunedin than in any other part of the Dominion. There had , been four such cases here in a very short time. Three had lost an eye each and one poor fellow had lost both eyes. The display of chrysanthemums and apples at the Horticultural Society's winter show, which opened yesterday, is a remarkably fine one. Mr, Sinclair, of Christchurch, the chrysanthemum judge, stated that the recent show in Christchurch was the best he had seen in the Dominion, but that it was quite outstripped by.th.c present exhibitionr
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 113, 14 May 1914, Page 7
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188NOTES FROM DUNEDIN Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 113, 14 May 1914, Page 7
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