WHERE WILL IT END.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7067, 29 July 1901, Page 2

WHERE WILL IT END.

The Wellington Harbor Board has raised a point before the Wellington Conciliation Board which, although serious enough to those especially conoerned, is as ludicrous as anything in any of Gilbert and Sullivan's most extraordinary extravaganzas. There was a dispute between the [painters and their employees before the Board; and the Wellington Harbor Board was cited as one of the parties to the dispute because now and again a few painters were employed. The representative of the Harbor Board'asked to be left out of the' dispute. If that were not done, he pointed out-that it would be necessary to make all the local bodies in the Wellington and Hawke's; Bay. Provincial Districts parties to the dispute, as well as the authorities connected with the .cliurohes".and'■•"Stinday-sclxcfofe :in :'that district, as,most of tlieni:eiiipl6yed:niore ■pamtOTs[;than-t^

absurdity of allowing any soction of a | trade in a city like Wellington to create a disturbance of trade in the whole of the two' provincial districts, whether those engaged in(tlic trade outside the city are: satisfied or not is self-evident, andit is important in this connection to consider whether it would not bo in the interests of everybody concerned to troat Wellington City as a separate industrial district. Many of the so-called disputes are merely engineered -by somo political loafer in search of stray crumbs he is too lazy to earn by honest work, as it alwaysl will be in a large city, but that is no reason why the1 community hundreds of miles away should be drawn into the trouble whether any desire in that direction has begn expressed or not. Personally we think that Conciliation Boards are useless excrescences on. the body politic, and that disputes would be settled cheaper and more nromptly by a direct appeal tothe Arbitration Court.