The Conciliation Board resumed the hearing of the drivers’ industrial dispute on Monday afternoon. J. D. McColl, barrier, said he had had fourteen years experience as a tram-car drivei, nine years of ’which was passed in the service of the Wellington Tramway Company. He approved the men’s demands. Ho explained to the Board the hardship of working in covered vans at the wharf. He considered £2 10s a fair minimum wage for drivers of such vans. This "witness was cross-examined by Mr Petersen, assistant-manager of the Corporation tramways. The Board adjourned at 4.30 until 10.30 this morning.
The largest shipment of cigarettes ever landed in New Zealand arrived at Auckland by the last mail steamer from San Francisco. During the Christmas holidays there was a great demand for Vanity Fair cigarettes, and the American Tobacco Company had to get 2,500,000 cigarettes overland from New York to San Francisco, and they arrived by the Alameda.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1509, 31 January 1901, Page 42
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