DOMINION NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1938, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

MINOR AGREEMENT R EACHED. i; ' (Per 1 Press Association —Copyright). WELLINGTON, March 9. When the Conciliation. Council this morning resumed the hearing of the application by the .workers in the.grocery business for a Dominion award, Mr F. D. Cornwell, advocate for the workers, raised ‘the* qffestion of the 40-hour five-dy week, which in turn brought up; the related question of wages. The employees’ proposals on the 40-hour fiveday week were acceptable to the workers; and neither side would accept the offer of the other on wages. There was.agreement on a number of minor clauses. Those outstanding besides wages and hours will also be referred to the Arbitration Court.. ' f. \ ' ‘ JUSTICES AIEET. NEW PLYMOUTH, Alarch 10. The T 940 conference of the federation of the New Zealand Justices’ Association is to be held in Wellington, it was decided at to-day’s session of the national conference at New Plymouth. The conference will coincide with the centenary celebrations, and - will probably be attended by Justices of the Peace from Australia and other parts of the Empire. Officers «detited = v\ ; ef^‘: ; —President,-Air W. C. Weston (Taranaki); vice-presi-dent, Air ,T. Al. Jenkins (South Canterbury) : registrar and treasurer A,. J< Stratford (Auckland); reference officer, Mr H. W, Shortt;.. motor Cyclist killed: CHRISTCHURCH. Alarch 10. Gravely injured when his motor cycle ran into ,a tree in Eastern Terrace, Beckenham, to-night, Leicester .H. Roberts, aged 22 years, died before he could be taken to the Christchurch ' Public Hospital. Roberts boarded at 296 Gloucester Street. His relatives were untraced tonight. TITOKI WORKED. ’ ■ J t GREYMOUTH March ; Tb|» Titoki was worked this morning by watersiders who are holding a con.ferenj'ce with . reip^entativesJ* of the Seamien’s Union j||gar|jßg -thjdf right j |to the w r orkftS^ : offlflk6\j^aoh«sill- Bltti j.,., \ V, -Th|e body of George Hills, a married lnanj aged 64~ years,wSkMoimthTiangjng ‘from a poplar tree at the residence of his sou-in-law, Albert John Half acre, about 9 o'clock yesterday morffing. An inquest was held in the afternoon before Cpimnor (Air H; ,4- Young) at the Rangiora Courthpusi). The . Coroner returned a verkdipt That Hills hanged himself while ."in"a! distressed{iSt^(ei,'o£ J .m.ind, arising ■frcmi| i}lrhftSßh.esoi>> mioi OA'.-.xd- a«:d? ■» 'HalfaSrefs .soifcigAid ; in evidence, thM his" fgthofi recently retired </ rom iwS>ck.,i an(| becfimfe •depressed .jthrough not be-;] •ihg;accustomed: .tox&n;}s]& existence: *He had Recently ~returned, from -Hamner;, where hpi had ibeen i receiving treatment;, 4m<l' was istkyingi .Tit ,'stlie? residence ,of hisßQn*inffaw..!..'ii;v- <<uv.vr-.c-: it «• 'l r I : ~. GAOL FOR FRAUD. WELLINGTON, March 10. Convicted ' of obtaining credit by fraud, John .Godfrey McArthur, aged 43, ,a labourer, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, by Air F. W. Stilwell, S.M. It ivas stated that the accused called at a warehouse at Auckland and represented himself'-as a member of tbe staff of the Devon port Naval Base, ordering 10 bottles of beer, two of cocktail, and two of port‘wine, saying that I it was later found at. Wellington, where he made a frank statement to detectives. He had several' convictions for a similar type of offence. WESTPORT H ARBOUR. WESTPORT, Afarch 10. The visit, of the three renreseiitatives of the Hamhurg-Amerika Shipping Line to Westport, when thev inspected the harbour facilities and discussed the coal trade with prominent citizens, has given rise to . a feeling that an extensive oc.al trade for bunkering will he opened up between the line and companies operating in The Buller, district. The visitors were Messrs H. A Mag, managing director, Duckwitz, and Cap-! tain Koehler, the Australian superintendent. .Two vessels belonging to the line,; the Gera and Anhalt, have bunkered at Westport in recent months, and it. is likely, if the harbour facilities can be improved, that four more larger, • vessels will call regularly at- this port for bunkers. Air Aklag.said that other companies would most likely follow the lead of The HambUrg-Amerika Line as Wesport coal was the best for their uses, while the cost compared, with that .at Wellington, was very Tow. Tf thej ships could not call at -Westport they) would have to bunker at Newcastle. j . It,is.understood that the visitors eon-; Bidered that the port would not be diffi-; ( cult for their vessels to w°rk. provided l ' certain improvements are made. Representations will be made by Buffer local bodies |to have the port improvements carried out. • ~ c ‘y —