WELLINGTON NEWS.
CONCILIATION. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, last night. New cases have been filed with the Conciliation Board by the Enginedrivers’ Union and Grooms’ and Conductors’ Union for the settlement of their terras of employment. A LEASE. The Government have decided to either vary the conditions under which the Grey-mouth-Point Elizabeth Coal and Railway Company holds its leases or to issue fresh leases.' PRISON LABOR. The Minister of Justice expresses himself as entirely satisfied at the result of the experiment of using prison labor for planting trees in the Rotorua district. He will next month inspect the work done, and then decide whether more prisoners should be employed in the same way in other parts of the colony. SCHOLARSHIPS. The Victoria College authorities have received information that the number of candidates for the Queen’s scholarships this year is 121, fourteen more than last year. GEOLOGY. Tho Victoria College Council has decided to defray tho expenses of a lecturer on geology, who intends taking students on a three months’ tour in the volcanic district of this island, in order to carry out their studies in this science.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 268, 21 November 1901, Page 2
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