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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8537, 18 March 1908, Page 8

THE DAIRY WORKERS' DISPUTE. i»i The Chairman of the Conciliation Board (Mr P. J. O'Regan) has been officially advised that the attempts to bring about a further conference of the parties at Palmerston North have failed. In consequence of this the Board will meet in Wellington on Monday to consider its recommendations in the matter. Having already visited the chief dairy factories throughout the industrial district the chairman thinks tliat it would be mere waste of J time to supoena further evidence. The Board will probably file its recommendations next week, and it will then be competent for the parties either to' accept them as filed, to accept them with modifications, or to take them to the Court within one month from the date of filing. Seen by a representative of the New Zealand Times yesterday, Mr O'Regan said that there was no reason whatever why the parties should not have come to an agreement I as the flockowners and shearers, had. The Board had gone out of its way to facilitate a. conference, but had met with very scant response. Unless tlie parties "were themselves desirous of meeting in friendly conference, there was no use in the Board exercising the powers of compulsion it possessed. SECOND EDITION, AUSTRALIAN NAVIGATION LAW. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) fut Press Assnoiar.iou. (Received March 18th, 10.30 a.m.) March 18. A despatch from the Colonial Cflice and a memorandum from .the Board of Trade in regard to the Naiigation Bill was tabled in the Senate." Tho despatch states that insofar as the Bill conforms to the resolutions of the Navigation Conference the Imperial Government is in full accord with its provisions, and desires ro put on record that every dominion has full power to regulate, not only vessels registered in that possession, but also vessels engaged in the coasting trade. In certain cases, however, the legislation proposed went beyond that limit by purporting to regulate vessels which did not engage in coasting trade and on vessels while on the high sea before or after engaging in coastal trade. The hope was expressed that the Commonwealth would find it possible to give effcer to tho suggestions contained in the Board of Trade memorandum.