STOCKTON NOTES

Grey River Argus, 1 August 1935, Page 7

STOCKTON NOTES

(Our Own Correspondent.) Messrs Fleming and Morgan left Stockton for Westport early Saturday morning to accompany the Buller juniors on their visit to Greymouth, to play the West Coast representative game. The juniors just lost and the seniors were successful by a margin of five points. Denniston Pirates beat Westport and Old Boys were beaten by Mokihinui. Stockton asked for a bye, due to the fact that several of the players are on the injured list, and some were away with the Country team at Greymouth. Rangers had a bye. It will rot be long now when a start will be made with the Prince Memorial Cup competition. Mr Graham Gilbert, the All Black, was a visitor to Stockton last week, wishing his relations farewell prior to I his departure with his colleagues who will endeavour to emulate the feats of previous All Blacks. The Ladies’ Hockey Club will be staging a concert and dance on Friday. They have been working very hard to make a success of the venture and, with some outside talent, a very enjoyable time should be spent by all the patrons. On Sunday afternoon the Millerton boys engaged the Stockton hockeyites in a semi-fancy dress game on the Stockton Domain. The weather was bitterly cold and this to some extent, prevented the enthusiasts from congregating in larger numbers. The Millerton side was a little too good, and won comfortably. The Stockton branch of the Women’s Institute held their monthly meeting on Wednesday evening last week. Mrs. H. Turnbull won the prize for the most useful article made from an old felt hat.

It was decided at the Union meeting on Sunday to procure an anemometer, so that the check inspectors can mea- ' sure the air in the working faces of *he miners. ! A few Stockton members of the Ca’eidonian Society paid a visit to Denniston on Friday night. Mr H. Campbell. Tunr.. is still unable to follow his emnlovment. due tn an in'urv received when playing ■a the Ranc'er-Stockton football game ■' f week. Mr. H. Fitzsimmons, who also suffered a disabilitv in the same game, has retnrned to work. The mine worked four shifts and four hours on the day shift, and four shifts on back shift last week. There are prospects of a few day’s work this week. A general meeting of the Ngakawau Miners’ Union was held in the Stockton Hall on Sunday at 10.30 a.m. Mr. F. Connew presiding. The meeting was a very protracted one, lasting until approximately 3.30 p.m. Nominations were taken for National President and Secretary-Organiser, of the United Mine Workers. Nominations ' w-'-p also taken for National represenA nrive for the Bu’ler district. Mr. A. Dellaway was the successful nominee for the position of National President, and Mr. A. McLagan was nominated for the positions of Organising-Secre-tary and Australian delegate. Mr. A. Campbell, Senr., was the Union’s successful nominee for Buller National representative. The carting of coal came up for further discussion, and it was decided to dea l with this matter at the earliest possible date. The following letter has been received from the Minister of Employment. “Mr. H. L. Evans, Secretary, Buller Miners’ Central Committee, Stockton. Dear Sir.—Tn reply to your recent ennnirv regarding the measure of relief that is extended to an intermittent worker under the No. 5 Scheme, I have to advise that the policy of the Board | in respect to intermittent workers is I that their relief is determined in exactlv the same manner as that of other workers, except that in arranging relief the intermittent worker’s income (subject to the usual exemptions) is taken over an eight-weekly period and he is given the difference between that amount of the total permissible income over a twelve-weekly period of an ordinary Scheme 5 worker of similar conjugal classification. Where. , however, this difference is more than ' he classified four-weekly ration, the ; intermittent is given the latter amount., The following is the maximum weekly permissible income:

Single men £l/5/-; Married men with wife or housekeeper £2/5/-; Married men with wife and one child £2/9/-; Married men with wife and 2 children £2/13/-: Married men with wife and 3 children £2/17/-; Married men with wife and 4 children £3/1/-; Married Men with wife and 5 children £3/5/-: Married men with wife and 6 children £3/9/-; Married men with 7 or more children £3/13/-. It is pointed out that where this sca ] e is exceeded, the relief ration is correspondingly reduced in order to keen within the scale stipulated. The maximum weekly work relief scale for ordinary relief workers is as follows for Stockton, Denniston and Millerton: (the rates for other centres on West Coast being given in parenthesis):— Sing’e man 14/- (12/-): Married man with wife onlv £l/4/- (£l/1/-); Married man with wife and 1 child £l/8/(£l/5/-); Married man with wife and 2 children £l/12/- (£l/9/-): Married man with wife and 3 children £l/16/(£l/13/-); Married man with wife and 4 children £l/18/- (£l/15/-); Married man with wife and 5 children £2 (£I Z I7/-); Married man with wife and 6 children £2/2/- (£l/19/-); Married man with wife and 7 children or more £2/4/- (£2/1/-). The following example, in the case of a man with wife and four children, wi’l illustrate the principle adopted in arranging intermittent relief: Weekly permissible income (as above) for 12 weeks £36/12/-; Income (subject to usual exemptions) over preceding eightweekly period £2O; leaving £l6/12/-. As this difference exceeds the classified four-weekly relief ration, the man would be granted only that ration, i.e., £7/12/-, the scale apn ] ying at Stockton, Denniston and Millerton. I trust that this is the information which you require.—Yours faithfully,— S. G. Smith, Minister of Employment.”