TIMBER WORKERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25052, 16 November 1944, Page 6

TIMBER WORKERS

UNIONS BREAK AWAY ACTION IN SOUTH ISLAND" 1 ' A break away by the timber 111 the Westland, Marlborough and Nelson districts from the New Zealand Timber Workers' Union, and their decision to form new separate union* were revealed in the Arbitration Court yesterday. An application was made bv their secretary, Mr F. Turley, to exclude them from the national award* a claim for which had been filed by the national union secretary, Mr Fi Craig Mr Turley said his three unions bad been duly registered in June this year and a claim for an award on behalf 0 f the Westland Union had been set down for consideration by the Conciliation Council at Greymouth on November 28 Mr A. Seed, representing the -New Zealand Timber Industry Employers' Union, said it objected to any district .being excluded from the scope of a national award. Exclusion would lead to confusion and difficulties, as under separate awards there would be separate disputes committees. Mr Turley said ho had attended the Council meeting when the national claim was heard, and protested against his three unions being made parties to it. After an adjournment, Mr Justice Tyndall said the Court had unanimously decided that the three separate unions could not be regarded as parties to the present dispute. Mr Seed and Mr Craie stated, in reply to His Honor, that they were prepared to proceed with consideration of the national claim. Outlining the union's case, Mr Craie submitted that the profitable nature of the industry, as shown by companies' trading accounts, indicated it« ability to pay the increased wages claimed. The Court adjourned until thU morning. MISSIONARY LEADER VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND The co-secretary of the International Missionary Council, Dr J. W. Decker of New York, is to arrive in Auckland today from Sydney, where he has been attending the Pacific missionary conference. Dr Decker was formerly a chaplain in the United States Navy and for many years a missionary in China. Ha is to spend a week in New Zealand including visits to Wellington and Christchurch, and will later make an eight months' tour of China, and India. Dr Decker recently had a meeting in Sydney with the Primate of New Zealand, Archbishop West-Watson, who also attended the Pacific missionary conference, and they were both given a civic reception in the Sydney Town Hall. Dr Decker spent part o£ his time in Australia conferring with the national missionary council on matters of policy, and he will hold similar discussions in New Zealand.

METHODIST CHURCH REHABILITATION PROBLEM A plea that all prejudice should cease against those who deemed it their duty to bear no part in the armed conflict was made at the opening session of the Auckland Methodist district synod yepterday by the chairman, the Rev. E, T. Olds. He said that there must be no bitterness toward these men, who had paid a heavy price for their victious. Mr Olds also referred to the need for an increasing spiritual emphasis ill education. He said that the inclusion of Dr Mainwaring's book "Man and His World," although it was humanistic in its approach, was nevertheless a step in the right direction. A further problem was that created bv rehabilitation. As men returned from the forces there should be an honourable place into which they could step without irritating delays. Re-establish-ment-, he said, was not an abstract problem. It was everybody!s task, and the Church must play its part:- v OBITUARY MR DUNCAN McNEIL (P.A.) INVERCARGILL, Wednesday The death occurred suddenly yesterday of Mr Duncan McNeil, former headmaster of the Waihopai school, and a ■ noted educationist, jat the age or 80 years. A Southlander by birth, having been born at Forest Hill, Mr McNeil early showed interest in education. After service as a pupil teacher, h 8 studied at the Otago University, where he graduated B.A. in 1892. He became headmaster of the Waihopai school, and filled that position until nis retirement in 1922. Mr McNeil was not married, , but is survived by a brother and two sisters. " ■; MB JOHN BLACK (P.A.) NELSON, Wednesday . The death of Mr John Black, aged 99, the last surviving original old hoy of Nelson College, which opened in 1800, occurred yesterday. Born in Edinburgh* Mr Black arrived in Nelson with his parents in the. barque Eden in 1850. He was in business here for many years as a draper. " SOUTH ISLAND INTERESTS (P.A.) TIMARU, Wednesday Subjects of importance to the South Island were discussed by over 100 delegates at the annual conference of the South Island Local Bodies' Association which was opened in Timaru today. IJM Mayor of Cnristchurch. Mr E. H. Andrews, presided. The delegates werei welcomed by the Mayor of Timaru, Mr A.' E. S. Hanan. SYDNEY FLYING-BOAT The following passengers left for Sydney by a Tasman Empire Airways flying" boat yesterday:—Messrs J. G. Barclay, N. E. Jones, C. A. Sharp, W. N. Martin, F. M. Gray. B. S. Rundle, D.,1Bauchop. C. L. Langdale. C. G. Scrimgeoup, Mesdames B. S. Barclay, M. A. A. Gray and infant, M. J. Clowes, Miss J. I. Langdale. Master D. Langdale.

THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall. attended by Major H. A. Jaffray. returned to Wellmg^ 3ll from the north this morning. PERSONAL ITEMS Mr G. Morton Smith left for Christchurch by air yesterday. Mr N. E. Jones, assistant genera! manager of Broken Hill Proprietary! Ltd., left on his return to Australia DJ air vesterday. Mr J. *G. Barclay, High Commissioner for New Zealand in Australia) left for Sydney by flying-boat yesterday. He was accompanied by Mrs .Barclay. Mr J. A. C. Allum, Mayor of Auckland, who has be6n attending a meeting of the National Patriotic Full Board in Wellington, will return by air today. The Rev. E. W. Homes, who has been acting-principal of the Trinity Theological College, is to be appointed principa as from the beginning of y e , a , r ' according to a decision made by tne Methodist Synod yesterday.