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THE TRADES' CONFERENCE.

CHRISTOHURCH, April 7. At the Trades and Labor Council Conference resolutions were passed that municipal councillors should retire in a body and wards be abolished; that the Government be asked to introduce a Bill compelling local bodies to pay the rates of wages ruling in the district; that the Government be bound by the awards of the Arbitration Court in the various trades affected; that the Government be asked to bring in a Bill establishing the referendum; that the Government be requested to amend the Inspection of Machinery Act by providing that all stationary engine-drivers should be certificated.

WELLINGTON, April 7. With respect to the complaint of the Trades Conference that they were only supplied with old copies of the Labor Bills, the Government jtate these Bills are the only ones in existence, and that they are in the form in which they were drawn last session, when at various-stages they were abandoned.. No new,drafts have been made, nor is there any intention of doing so, but the measures will be brotlgh#forward in the same shape ab before. '•'■

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Evening Star, Issue 10900, 7 April 1899, Page 2

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THE TRADES' CONFERENCE. Evening Star, Issue 10900, 7 April 1899, Page 2

THE TRADES' CONFERENCE. Evening Star, Issue 10900, 7 April 1899, Page 2