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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4309, 19 March 1901, Page 5

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PfiESS ASSOCIATION. . AUCKLAND, March 18. The Thames Miners' Industrial Union has filed a case with the Conciliation Board asking that the men recently discharged by the Waihi Company be reinstated, and that the schedules of wages and conditions of labour sent to the managers of the various companies be adopted throughout the district. Several companies are made parlies to the case, and it is probable that all the companies on the Waihi Goldfield will be included. Compensation on behalf of the discharged men is also sought. DUNEDIN. March 18.

The Government has" agreed to grant .£2OOO for the enlargement of the Dunedin Technical School and the erection of an electrical plant The Management Committee of the Educational Institute Kas passed a resolution that, pending the introduction of a colonial scale of salaries for teachers, the Minister of Education be requested to allow the Otago Education Board to distribute tho amount allocated to Otago under the Public School Teachers’ Salaries Bill. It was decided to request the Education Board, in the event of its receiving the grant, to allocate it on the graduated percentage basis. . CHRISTCHURCH. March 18. A nine-roomed house in Chester street Last, owned by Mrs Stephens: and occupied liy Mr C. J. Ward, was destroyed by fire this afternoon. The insurances on the house are not yet known, but the furniture, etc., is insured for .£450 in the New Zealand office.

William Hoey, chief coot of the Rotorua. who died suddenly on the Vessel at Wellington 0 n Saturday afternoon, was at one time cook on tho Lyttelton steamer Cygnet ami before that*” was second cook on tho Eotomaliana.