DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 16 December 1943, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

COMMERCIAL DUNEDIN, Dec. 15. Sale: Kaiapoi Woollen (cont.) 9s 3d. Repoi’ted sale: Bruce Woollen (ord.) 325. FIRE DAMAGE AT DAIRY FACTORY. T'E AROHA, Dec. 15. Fire at the New Zealand Dairy Company’s Waitoa butter factory resulted in a large portion being badly damaged. Valuable plant, including a new £2OOO cooler, was destroyed. The loss, partly covered by insurance, totals thousands of pounds. The stock of manufactured butter was saved. ARMY TRUCK SALE DUNEDIN, Dec. 15. Nearly £2OOO was realised at a sale to-day at Dunedin of 45 Army trucks. For the first time the system of priority operated, preference being given before dealing began to local bodies and returned' servicemen and thereafter to licensed carriers.

AUCKLAND WATERFRONT DISPUTE.

AUCKLAND, Dec. 4

An announcement that Union waterside workers would not work a night shift on Union Steam ShipCompany vessels was made to-day to the Auckland waterfront controller, Captain C. V. Stanich, by the president of the Auckland Waterside Workers’ Union, Mr H. Barnes. The Union Company was advised shortly before 4 o’clock this afternoon by Captain Stanich, but no reasons for the union’s action were given. “I received verbal intimation from Mr Barnes that the union would not work a night shift on Union Company vessels.” said Captain Stanish. He understood that the union’s action was in connection with a recent dispute on a Union Company ship. The dispute had been heard by the local disputes committee, and referred to the national committee. The dispute arose on a Union Company ship on a recent Saturday when the men were knocked off at 5 p.m. and told not to come back between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. because of rain. Another Union Company vessel with different cargo worked during that time and a claim was made by the union. On e Union Company vessel would have worked to-night with nonunion labour, but winchmen could not be obtained. The ship, which is loading urgent cargo, will be delayed a day. A call for winchmen in the non-union hiring pen was made too late, and none was available. Mr Barnes would make no statement on the matter. LEASE TRANSFER CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 15. The transfer of a lease to Charles Begg and Company at £7OO a year of the three-storey building between the firm’s present premises in High Street and those of Ashby Bergh .and Company, Ltd. was approved by the Urban Land Sales Committee. ! WAGES LEGACY I CHRISTCHURCH. Dec. 15. Priority of a legacy of £lOOO in satisfaction of wages over all other legacies in an estate where the assets wer e insufficient to cover all the legacies, was granted by Mr Justice Northcroft in the Supreme Court. A ruling was sought whether a special legacy of £lOOO to Lilian Joyce Hoglund, in satisfaction of wages, was subject to abatement. The plaintiff was the Public Trustee as executor and trustee for John Hoglund and the defendants werp Theresia Wilhelmina Milliken. Hilda M'ary Bushell, J’osephine Maximilliana Mashlan, Oscai’ Frederick Napoleon Hoglund, Lilian Joyce Hoglund, Sigrid Victoria Wright, Nina Pretoria Mander, Leonard James Hoglund and Marvina Estelle Hoglund. HEAVY OPIUM FINES WELLINGTON. Dec. 15. The minimum fine of £125 each was imposed by the Magistrate (Mr Stout) on Thain Tjide and Tang Kan King, who pleaded guilty to importing prepared opium into New Zealand. Immediate payment was ordered or three months’ imprisonment. The Collector of Customs said the men were detected at different times vesterd.ay bringing opium ashore from an overseas ship of which they were members of the crew. One had 21b and the other lib. Fifteen members of the crew had been dealt with at Durban for the same offence.