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HOSPITAL BOARD'S ENGINEDR fVERS. (Par Association—Copyright). AVELLINGTON, September 18. 1". j ,No conclusion, was-reached whgn an 1 application for a Dominion award for i J engine-drivers, employed by hospital boards, was resumed before the Concil ; iation Commissioner in AVellington on ; ; Saturday. A tentative agreement was - reached on hour s . of work by which ■ these would be 40 a. week spread over ) 1 seven days-of. five shifts, no shift to t. be more than eight hours, -..• ; • • , 1[ - The employers’- wages offer,-,to cover I all workers was £5 a week for drivers t with a second-class certificate, and£4 • 1 17s6d a week for non-eertified workers - 1 The union counter-claimed fop l rates' of e £5 7a 6d and £3 2 S 6d respectively.: For holidays,-sick leave and medical - and surgical treatment, the employers '* j offered the conditions under the by s I laws of the various hospital hoards. b j The dispute wa s adjourned till Octo. !*.'• her 21.
MINISTER VISITS HAWKE’S BAY. HASTINGS, September 18. The Minister of Railways, Hon. D. G. Sullivan, arrived at Napier on gaturday, travelling by a new rail car which was on its trial run from AVellington. j Mr Sullivan attended the crowning ceremony of- the Hawke’s Bay Labour Queen Carnival at Napier on Saturday evening, and to-day he visited the Esk | Valley areas which were devastated; in 'iithei-,autumn floods. . v ... - j Air Sullivan expressed himself as -being yVei-y: distressed •‘ by- the terrible | scenes of ruin of rich and beautiful countryside; The Minister returned to AVellington later in the day. INFANT FOUND DEAD. I DUNEDIN, September 18. A five and a half months old infant Nina Jessie Edwards, whose hom e was lat Sydney Street, Caversham, was I found dead in its cot at 1() a.m. to-day. | A doctor was unable to determine the j cause of death, and the Coroner orderj ed a post-mortem and inquest to-mor-row. A TRIBUTE. HASTINGS, September. 19. An unusual way of opening a meeting | was adopted when members: -of the i Hawke’s Bay Fruitgrowers Association } met on Saturday evening, in that bej fore any of the ordinary business was ■ put in hand, three cheer s were given for' Mr Neville Chamberlain, in recognition of his efforts to preserve peace in trouble,] Europe. “For his sincere efforts Air Chamberlain’s name will go down in the history of nations as one of the greatest' peace makers of all time,” stated Air S. Edilson.
OPPOSITION LEADER’S BROADCAST. CHRISTCHURCH, September 19, Hon. Adam Hamilton (leader of the Opposition), has decided to make his first broadcast election speech in Christchurch on Friday when he will reply to Hon. M. J; Savage’s broadcast arranged for Thursday. AN INDEPENDENT. CHRISTCHURCH, September 19. W. B. Bray, prominent in the Douglas social credit movement, will contest the Lyttelton seat as an Independent candidate. > Bray recently resigned from the Woolston branch of the Labour Party on the ground that he could not tolerate what he describes) as the ‘‘undemocratic”,. methods ot the Labour Party administration. At that time Bray demanded the resignation of the member for Lyttelton, Mr T. H. McCombs, as an alternative to his own resignation; » >y
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