IN OTHER CENTRES

Evening Star, Issue 21232, 13 October 1932, Page 12

IN OTHER CENTRES

BOOK-MAKING INDUSTRY. [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, October 13. Wages and conditions in the bookmaking trade are being discussed in the Conciliation Council to-day. The employees arc asking 2s 3d an hour for ordinary working hours, and the employers offer is Is 9]d, with Is G£d for semi-skilled workers. The employers propose a forty-four hour week, with provision for shifts to be worked outside the regular hours. The workers want a forty-hour week, working on five days. APPEAL COURT. In the Appeal Court case, Dominion Airlines Ltd. v. Strand, Mr Cooke continued his argument that the aviation regulations of 1918 were purely police regulations, and were not intended to create civil liability. The regulations, he said, provided a uniform penalty for a breach of many widely differing provisions, many of which, such as the provision against living over fortifications, had no reference to the safety either of passengers or the public in general. The fact that regulations were expressly stated to bo provisional regulations was a clear indication that the regulations were not intended to alter or extend the existing forms of civil liability. Argument is proceeding.—Wellington Association message. [The appeal concerns a fatal crash, in which a passenger was killed. The case is reported elsewhere in this issue.]