DUNEDIN NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 14202, 26 October 1906, Page 4

DUNEDIN NOTES.

. [Feom Orn Conßicspownicwr.l DUNEDIN, October 2ft. When the Arbitration Court sat her*' last month, a conference was directed to be held between the Bakers’ and Pastrycooks’ Union of Workers and the Master Bakers’ and Pastrycooks’ of Otago and Southland. This eon* ference took place yesterday, and, after a sitting lasting several hours, th© whole of the conditions relating to the pastrycooks’ reference were agreed to by both parties, and will form an industrial agreement, which will be made an award by the Court. ■ In so far as the bread bakers’ reference is concerned, all the clauses were agreed to with the exception of two dealing with hours of labour and minimum rate of wages. The editor of “ The Red Funnel,” Mr A. A. Brown, who has just returned from a visit to America, suggests in the “ Star ” that the announcement that letters having one penny postage from this colony will be delivered in the United States after November 1 without surcharge, should be marked by a national testimonial. His idea is that committees should be formed throughout New Zealand, that each subscriber’s name , should be bound in a volume de luxe, and presented to the PostmasterGeneral as a testimony of appreciation, and that the fund created should be known as the Ward penny fund, and. vested in a Board of trustees for the endowment of on© or more scholarships in the universities of the colony.