DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 September 1945, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS

bookmaker” IMPRISONED WELLINGTON, September 18. Joseph Cohen, 48, tailor’s cutter, who was fined £l5O for bookmaking two months ago, and had previous convictions for bookmaking, was sentenced by Mr Stout, S.M.U to three months’ hard labour, without the option, on a similar charge. The police stated that when they entered the premises last Saturday, defendant ran upstairs to the bathroom, and got rid of betting material.

WELLINGTON WHARF DUES WELLINGTON, September 17. Representations regarding the refusal of the Price Tribunal to grant the application of the Wellington Harbour Board to increase certain wharf dues and charges were made to-day by a deputation from the Board, which waited on Messrs Fraser, Nash, and Sullivan. Mr. Fraser said that the denutation had made out a case for the matter to be looked into further, and that would be done. He was impressed with the proposed rehabilitation projects of the Board. Mr. Sullivan emphasised that the Tribunal decision was not final, but was for a period of 12 months, with the object of ascertaining how the operations of the Board would be affected by a period of peace.

, AUCKLAND BUSES AUCKLAND, September 17. The decision of the special tribunal on the dispute between Auckland bus drivers and the companies on working hours and payment for work on four statutory holidays was delivered by the chairman, Mr J. A. Gilmour, Industrial Magistrate, at the conclusion of a two-day sitting. In addition to advising the parties before the termination of the sitting this afternoon, the chairman communicated findings to the Acting-Minister of Labour (Mr O’Brien), on whose authority the tribunal was set up. The tribunal found for the union on its claim for an 8| hours working day spread over 11 hours, and rejected the employers’ claim for a continuation of the existing practice of nine hours a day spread over 12 hours. The union’s claim foi' overtime payment for working on Christmas Day, Good Friday, Anzac Day, and Labour Day was not granted. The parties had previously agreed to the drivers receiving an annual holiday of .three weeks in nine months, and the employers opposed any concession of statutory holiday payments on the ground that the annual holidays offered were sufficient compensation.