SUNDAY BUSES

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24775, 24 December 1943, Page 6

SUNDAY BUSES

NORMAL SERVICES PROPOSALS TO OWNERS Normal bus services will be run on Sunday. A mass meeting of 184 bus drivers in the Trades Hall last night conditionally agreed to accept the proposals of the proprietors for double time rates for Sunday work, and that the hours worked on Sundays be included in the ordinary working week. The conditions io which the employers will bo asked to agree are that there should be a minimum of eight consecutive hours' employment oh Sundays and that there should be no change in the present rosters relating to days oil as operated by the individual companies. The secretary of the Drivers' Union, Mr. L. G. Matthews, said that the union representatives would meet the employers to-day. "If the proprietors disagree with the drivers' proposals, another meeting o( drivers will be held next, week," said Mr. Matthews. Whatever happened, bus services would operate normally this Sunday, but if there was a disagreement the drivers at their meeting next week would adhere to their previous resolution not to operate services on following Sundays apart from those necessary for conveying essential workers to and from their work. The drivers and proprietors previously reached an agreement fo; - the payment of double time, but when they made joint application for approval by the Wages Commissioner, Mr. C. L. Hunter, 011 Wednesday tho parties each placed different interpretations on the agreement, and the application was deferred. Mr. N. 15. Spencer, the employers' representative, considered that the agreement was for double time for Sunday work and that the hours worked on Sundays would be included in the ordinary working week. Mr. Matthews, for the'union, said that tho agreement was for double time on Sundays, in addition to the weekly wage. Ttie drivers' meeting last, night, which was addressed by Mr. Matthews and the union organiser, Mr. F. Muller, lasted oyer three hours.

WATERFRONT WORK

A SHIFT TO CEASE

WEEK-END EVENINGS

Following recent conferences in Wellington between the Government, the Waterfront Control Commission and the Now Zealand Waterside Workers' Union, it has been decided that no work will be done in Auckland and other ports after five o'clock on Saturday and Sunday evenings. The evening shifts between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. during the week-ends will not now be worked. Members of the Auckland Waterside Workers' Union are now prepared to work on Union Company ships during the night. The dispute, which was the cause of the men not working the company's ships, has been settled by the national disputes committee which gave its decision in favour of the union. Asked yesterday if it was intended to reduce'the day shift between 8 a.m. and I" p.m. by one hour and to exiond the night shift between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. by an hour, the Auckland waterfront controller, Captain C. . Stanich. said yesterday that it was possible that changes in the hours would be discussed at a meeting between the shipowners, the commission and the union in Wellington.

RAID BY POLICE OPIUM CHARGES LAID , Following a police raid oil premises at 31 Grey's Avenue at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, two Chinese gardeners were charged before Mr. J. Donald, ,7.P., at a special Court in the central police station with being in possession of prepared opium. The men were Tong Kwong, aged 52, of 34 Grey's Avenue, and Ah I*>w, aged 51, of 226 Hobson Street.

Bail was allowed in £IOO and one surety of £IOO in each case, and the men were ordered to appear in the Police Court on January 17. COCKSFOOT SEED HARVESTING URGED The harvesting of cocksfoot grass seed from the luxuriant growth now to be found on practically any roadside close to residential districts is urged bv the representative of a large city mercantile firm. Commenting on the subject yesterday he said that it was really a* matter of prime national importance and it would be regrettable and an economic loss if some effort was not marie to save this seed.

the crop of cocksfoot in New Zealand had been short for several years and this made it more desirable than ever that the present crop•should be harvested, lie said he felt sure that anyone taking the trouble to devote a few hours a day in the* coming holidays would be well repaid in the good price that would he given by merchants. To his knowledge there was one firm that would be willing to take all supplies of properly harvested seed,

COLLAPSE OF VERANDAH

ELDERLY WOMAN INJURED When the roof of the verandah of her home collapsed yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Charlotte Boag, a widow, aged 72, of 67 Ardmore Road, Heme Bay, suffered concussion and a fractured left wrist. Her condition at the Auckland Hospital last night was fairly serious. GIRL'S FALL DOWN CLIFF DIFFICULT RESCUE WORK (O C.) CHRISTCITURCIH, Thursday Falling down a 30ft. cliff while climbing the hills above Corsair Bay, Bona Cox, aged IB years, of Riccartou, broke both her forearms, dislocated an elbow, and suffered shock. The accident happened on the steep slopes below the Summit Road. Two members of the Lyttolton Ambulance Division, assisted by three members of the works staff of the Lyttelton Borough Council and a seaman, took a stretcher and first-aid kits to the scene of the accident. So steep and slippery wore the slopes that .most of the party discarded (heir shoes and proceeded barefoot. 'The rescue party found the girl lving on a steep slope of rock. The work or splinting and bandaging was very difficult, while getting the patient on to the stretcher was a hazardous feat. Tho party made its way down to Cass Bay, the round trip taking two and a-half hours. After being attended by a doctor the girl was taken to the Chnstchurch Hospital in nn ambulance from Lyttolton. STRUCK BY TRAMCAR Knocked down by a tramcar in Surrey Crescent, Grey Lynn, about 6.10 p.m. yesterday, Mrs. Florice Esther Rime, married, aged 42, of -16 Rona Avenue, Grey Lynn, suffered concussion. She was admitted to the" Auckland Hospital, and her condition last night was not, serious.

WATERFRONT COLLISION The occupants of a small motor-car which was involved in a collision with a large service truck at the corner of Ngaptpi Road and the waterfront road at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon had a lucky escape from serious injury. The right front wheel of the car torn off and the front was extensively damaged. The driver of the car was M/s. R. McArthur. of 7.3 Victoria Avenue, Remuera, and with her Tvere Mrs. S. Horrocks, of 80 Victoria Avenue, and two children. Mrs. Horrocks suffered slight injuries. »

The service truck received only superficial damage. The driver, Miss Pat Robson, of 8 View Road, Takapuna, was not injured.