DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1935, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

STA.TE INSURANCE BUILDING. WELLINGTON. August 12. It was announced to-day that a contract for the fabrication and erection of the steel framework of the new Government Life Insurance Building at Wellington had been let to M illiam Cable and Company, of Wellington. The total quantity of steel involved is nearly 3000 tons and the value of the contract to the Yorkshire manuI facturers is approximately -33,000.

VALUELESS CHEQUES. WELLINGTON. August 13. Douglas Arthur Fletcher Brewer pleaded guilty to two charges of issuing valueless cheques, and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. A police statement showed that he was an old offender. A local bank would not allow him to open an account. so he got a man to open one for him. under the name of Steiens.

FOUND HANGED. CHRISTCHURCH. August 13. David Ferguson Nelson, retired railwav inspector of permanent ways, was found hanging in a shed at his home this morning. He had been suffering from nervous breakdown. He accompanied Mr. Casey, term Chief Engineer, to Napier, at the time of the earthquake, and was largely resppnsible for the restoration of rail services, but the strain involved seriously impaired his health.

MEDICAL RESEARCH. WELLINGTON, August 12. Dr. Ewen, formerly Medical Superintendent of Wellington Hospital, ieturned from post-graduate study in Britain to-day. He stated that a recent striking development was one in surgery of the chest for diseases m the lung, such as tuberculosis; but it was only of value in certain selected Regarding diabetes, he said that very good results were being obtained from insulin, plus a more liberal diet than that which was allowed when insulin was first discovered.

GROCERS’ AWARD. WELLINGTON, August 12

The hearing of the dispute between the Wellington district grocers’ employers and workers, was halted at the’ Arbitration Court to-day. by a claim made on behalf of the Cnain Store employers, that the applicant employers had not filed a dispute according' to all the provisions of the law. Certain documents were missing, which counsel for the master grocers claimed had actually been filed. The Court will give a decision on Wednesday. Whether the grocery shop managers in Canterbury are bound by tlie award covering other employees in the trade, was the principal topic in Uie hearing of a dispute in the Arbitration Court.'to-day. The decision was reserved. Applicant was the Canterbury Master Grocers’ Industrial Union of Employers. Its claims were contested bv the Canterbury Grocers’ Assistants’ Industrial Union of Workers. The Employers’ Union claimed there was a valid separate agreement with branch managers. This contention was opposed by the Workers’ Union. The recently formed Canterbury Chain Stores Grocery Managers’ Union made a submission that managers were “occupiers” of shops. and therefore should not be included in tlie award covering assistants.