PALMERSTON NORTH

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7399, 29 March 1911, Page 9

PALMERSTON NORTH

FEOM OVB OWN COEE.ESPONHENT. . The Rev. H. C. Basher, .M.A., who has been appointed vicar at All Saints’, is to be instituted into his new office by the Bishop of Wellington, on his arrival. Nurse Kilgour, of the Palmerston North Public Hospital staff, has been appointed matron of the Kumara hospital. A deputation from the Citizens League waited on the Mayor to ask that the leasing of the borough reserves in Grey street and Coleman place be held over till after the Borough Council elections. The Mayor replied that he favoured the Coleman place site himself for a library, but the ratepayers had thrown out the proposed loan and the council had accordingly decided to lease the land. John'Russel Goodwin, farmer, of Torarua, was adjudicated bankrupt yesday. Bankrupt's statement showed unsecured creditors £333, stock-in-trade £l5O, deficiency £403. In connection with the dairy employee registration dispute in Taranaki a somewhat interesting situation has arisen. At present the men are working under an award which expires in October noxt, and one which is not satisfactory to them. Mr J. Robertson, of/ Palmerston, secretary of the Wellington Butter, Creamery and Cheese Factory Employees' Industrial Union of Workers, and secretary of the Taranaki Dairy Workers' Union, suggested that a conference of five a side should meet to draw up an award to come into force before the beginning of next season.: The employers, however, do not eoe their way clear to meet the employees owing to the non-registration of the union. The workers' union still refuse to register, and in the meantime the matter is at a standstill.