CONGRATULATIONS TO HOTEL WORKERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 117, 19 May 1914, Page 8

CONGRATULATIONS TO HOTEL WORKERS

_. .»».. . .— Quito a large batch of letters from all parts of Australia and New Zealand Were read at the meeting of the Wellington Hotel Workers' Union last evening congratulating the union and its secretary (Mr. E. J. Carey) upon the victory secured for Labour in the granting of the weekly day of rest to Wellington hotel workers. Among the letters was one from the Otago Trades and Labour Council containing the following resolution which had been passed Dy that body: "That this council offers its congratulations/ to the Hotel Workers' Unions of the Dominion on their prospects of at last securing a weekly day of rest, and also places on record its appreciation of the work done by Mr. E. J. Carey in connection with this mattor. This council further hopes that the day is not far distant when every worker in the Dominion will have at least twenty-four hours' rest in each week." Tho .Australian letters included congratulations from tho West Australian Hotel Workers' Union and tho Melbourno and Sydney branches of tho federated Liquor Trade Employees' Union of Australasia. •

An interesting recovery was made from the harbour one day last week under somewhat peculiar circumstances. After having anchored in the stream overnight the White Star liner Zenlandic was being brought to a berth when it was observed that a piece of thick wire was attached (o one of her anchors, having been dragged up from the bottom of the harbour. It was not considered to be of any great length and the anchor was dropped again when the steamer came to the wharf. Yesterday the wire was hauled ashore, and much to rho astonishment of those carrying out the operation, it was found to be about 1200 feet in length and nearly two inches in diameter. On further examination it prayed to bo a four-core cable, with seven wires (copper) in each core, and apparently in good condition. Had it been known on board the Zeakndic that such a length of wire was being drawn along I here is no donbt that it would have been immediately removed, as there was the danger of it becoming entangled with the propeller. There has been much speculation as to how and when the cable tame to be placed in Ilia harbour. It is thought possiblo that it is part of the cable- laid across Evans Bay which disappeared two or three months ago. Investigations are now proceeding. , A final choir practice in connection with flio Vivmivßlreet Hujitiet Church Mission \ull be held to-night.