ARBITRATION COURT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 78, 1 March 1929, Page 7

ARBITRATION COURT.

SITTING HELD TO-DAY. PAINTERS’ AWARD AMENDED. An application for the amendment of the Palmerston North District painters’ and decoraters’ apprenticeship order was granted by Mr Justice Frazer when the matter came before the Arbitration Court at this centre this morning. Also on the bench were Mr G. T. Booth (employers’ representative) and Mr A. L. Monteith (employees’ representative). The submission made by Mr Lowden, inspector of the Labour Department, Palmerston North, was that the order did not cover signwriters,. and that the latter should be brought into line with the award to cover all branches of the' trade. His Honour considered the request was a reasonable one, and made the order requested, no objection being made. ADDITIONS TO AWARD. The Court approved of the addition to the motor and horse drivers’ award (Wellington Industrial District) of J. Bingham (baker), Economic Bag Wash Laundry,- A. Grady (baker), A. K. McDonald (ice-cream manufacturer) and the Etan Ice Cream Co., Ltd. EXEMPTION GRANTED. An application for the exemption of Chas. Dahl and Son, of Palmerston North, from the provisions of the engineers’ award was granted. Mr W. McKenzie, secretary of the Manawatu Employers’ Association, intimated that the firm concerned had sold their engineering business , four years ago.

“Mountains so distinctive and so beautiful deserve a name of their own,” said Mr R. Scoville, of New York, after he had seen the Southern Alps. He said that the comparison with ttke Swiss Alps, which their name suggested, was both odious and misleading. They were entirely different, and lost nothing of their unique character. The Swiss Alps had pine trees growing right up to the skyline, while in New Zealand mountains were bare and rugged like the Rockies. More than any others he had seen, the New Zealand ranges resembled the Selkirks in British Columbia with their jagged, snow-capped peaks. A peculiar feature of the Southern Alps, however, was their height above the hermitage. The foothills surrounding the Canadian Rockies, for instance, made it impossible to observe peaks of 12,000 ft. at close quarters except from an altitude of bout 6000 ft. and in this way some of their dignity was destroyed, but in this country one could look up from the Tasman and Hooker Valleys at Mount Cook rising up for 10,000 ft. sheer into the sky. In connection with the Palmerston North Licensing Committee election, on March 12th, the polling place in the Fitzherbert district, will bo at the residence of Mr H. J. Lauridscn, Whitmore Road. To-morrow night, in the Oddfellows’ Hall, the Social Club will hold its usual weekly monster euchre tourney when the usual good prizes, which includo a gold wristlet watch, will bo competed for. Supper as usual will be providod and play commences at 8 o’clock sharp. The cable news in this issue accredited to the London Times has appeared in that journal, but only where expressly stated is such news the editorial opinion of the Times.