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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 10 April 1912, Page 6

The uncertainty which has existed re garding a. council's rights in striking ott the municipal roll the names of tno::e persons who did not vote at £he previous election has been removed, states the Wellington "Post." The Peton e Borough Ouncil has been legally advised that the rolls can be purged only every two years. The rolls used at the mayoral election this month will therefore he the same as those used last year, with additions. Colonel George Milne, of Aberdeen, president of the Clyde Sailing Ship Owners' Association, speaking at the annual meeting in Glasgow, expressed the opinion that sailing vessels would soon be able to command employmeut on improved and that merchants and shippers would have to make up their minds to pay them higher freights for the next year or two, at any rate. Thern was no doubt that shipping was now heu, by stronger hands than 6ome years ago. Many of the weak managers had been obliterated, and he fully believed shipowners had made up their minds to iii Ms* on a fair remuneration for their labour. It was rash to prophesy, but, taking into account the increased burdens thrown on the industry by recent 'aeis lation; the higher remuneration paid ti> their employees, both ashore and afloat: the frequent labour troubles, eau«in" great loss and delay, the higher price of steamers, and the increased cost of running them, especially as coals were cer tain to be dearer—all these made it quite clear that the old remunerative rate-5 rurrent for the past six or ei'rht years had passed away, and that- failing ships, more especially as thev were fewe>in number than thev used to be, wou!d obtain enhanced freights.