WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 142, 26 June 1901, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS.

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Wellington, last night. During the month of May 2157 persons arrived in the colony, as against 844 for the same month last year. The departures were 1575, as against 1076. CONCILIATION BOARD. Giving evidence before the Conciliation Board to-day in regard to the claims of printing machinists, the foreman of the New Zealand Times job printing department said that if the demands of the Union were granted one-twelfth of the output in the machine room would be affected. With the expensive machines now in use printers bad great difficulty in getting sufficient work out of the machines to pay current expenses. He did not think journeymen would bo justified in refusing to teaeli a boy the trade. A machinist of 39 years’ experience stated in his evidence that lie had never suffered in health through tho trade. TEACHERS’ SALARIES. James Robertson, a membor of the Wellington Education Board, in giving evidence before tho .Teachers’ Salaries Commission, favored inspectors being placed under the control of tho Education Department. Ho looked with disapproval on the proposal to introduce technical education into primary schools, there being a danger that before long a kit of tools would take tho place of the hoy's satchel. The Inspector-General should be a man who inspected schools, and there should bo a colonial exposition of tho state . of the colony’s schools, and not merely a collection of the reports of the local inspectors. TROOPER’S PROMOTION.

Hcywood, son of the Secretary of the Treasury, who went to South Africa as a trooper, has been appointed to a captaincy in the Duke of York’s Own Rifles, now in South Africa.