Westport Notes

Maoriland Worker, Volume 6, Issue 243, 13 October 1915, Page 5

Westport Notes

• — At the last meeting of the Westport Harbour Board the Union had plenty of correspondence for the Board tq dea} with-

A couple of months ago the permanI ent way mep on the Cape Foulwind jjne, asked for an increase of wages, and tjie Board increased the mqi's , ivapi frpni Jjs. Sd. to lQs- per day. I wet a n !- dry, hufc the gangers) were pop j considered at all in this event, 60 the ' Union wrote the Board pointing out that the gange/s should be brought up in proportion, and the Board granted tiie gamers per day'rjse'. * AA T | al6o asked for a shelter shed at Tprango, Bay' quarry. The Engineer wijl sj6e to that at once.

Another matter was when the Board wag retrenching, that old employees of the Board did not receive any eonsit}6ratipr} afc all after from 18 to ?o years' faifchfl'i service, and it wqs decided qt thp Board meeting that the Engineer go intp the matter wit_;'the. Ej;ccutjre.

Thp 'injshing touches are being put on the Bay tunnel at Cape Fpulivjud, and a large gang of men are afc present emplpypfl' cementing the hpio in the iill-

Mr. P. J. CTRcgap has paid us a visjt, and met our Executive on matters jn cqnpeptioii with put Uuipn.

Tivp. pf pur members— Messrs. Jpe Kayo aud Jphn Reedy—are sti'l in the AVestpprfc Hospital, and are getting' on fairly well after their accidents in tho Tprapgq Bay tunnel-

An increase of wage? is asked fpr frqirV the Harhoiir B.par{l to the employees, as tiie ppst pf living has jpprpusfjfl frqm \'2 tp 25 per cent., aqd tq jiaso' the wages on the present cost pf living. The'Bpard d.epif|ed to ifieet the Executive, and go jpte tjie "natter.

TjlP half-yearly bajance-sheet was brought up afc the la§t Weeting of the Uni'qn and found satisfactory. A ballot is to bo taken tq decide whether the Union will affiliate with tho Social penipe'ratic Party.

Jlr. P. Fraser is in the district, and I can safely say he is doing good work in organising fpr the Party. Mr. Fraser has been at twp meetings of the

Unipn, explaining its pbjects. to the members. He, is in and pnt and round about the AVestport Ijjstrict, and not leaving a stone upturned, an.4 I*9 is. pf the opinion now that tho Buller Seat can he won at the next election by a man from the §-ft.P. rajllfsi I have bepn about a good deal with Fraser, and one thing I can't help but notice is that when he meets an Aberdeen Scotchman, the first question they put te hini >s why lus parents allpwec] i\\o piii'son when they fapk 111" 1 tft tho \irk tp bo chi'isteped, to call hi m l-A T? PAN MOLONEY. b■ A .