DOMINION NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14009, 13 March 1920, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

FKK f'RBW ABHOCUTIOJV WELLINGTON, March 12. Mr \V.-11. .Morris, Secretary of the Post Office, has been appointed Chief Fublic Service Commissioner, in place of .Mr Donald Robertson, who is retiring ui the end of April on superannuation, ins term of appointment having expired. Mr F. V. Eraser, who has been acting Assistant Commissioner, has been eoniirmed in his appointment. A third appointment is to be made. Mr A p. Thomson, at present Assistant-Commis-sioner, is retiring from , his office, and will probably return to the Magiste-rinl Bench. CHRISTCHURCH. March 12 A telegram received from Otirn states | that delegates of the Workers' Union 1 met Mr Holmes, Chief Engineer of th» Public Works Department. Mr Holmes ! made an offer to put the miners on the contract system the same as at Bealey. hut at much increased* rates owing !•« the bad ground at the Otira end. A meeting of miners unanimously decided to accept these terms. Mr Holmes also promised fortnightly pay, and rises of wages for outside employees, the housing accommodation would l»e attended to. and he would use his best endeavors to obtain a doctor for the Otira huspi- < tal. Several other grievances of ;i" minor character were also rectified. WANGANUI. March 12. The Wanganni of the Post and Telegraph Association passed thefollowing resolutions to-night:—This meeting is of opinion that the continual increase in the cost of household necessaries is capable of control by the Government, and regrets that no apparent effort has been made to decisively grapple with the question* This meeting also calls upon the Executive Committee to place before the Department and the Government the plight of the majority of the officers will small fixed sain- ! ries or wages, who have to contend with these rising prices, and to ask that substantial increases be granted so as to bring tl)e officers' incomes up to pre-war spending value. It was also decided that in the event of the Government declining to grant immediately the war bonus promised by Sir Joseph Ward the committee be instructed to arrange for the members of the Post and Telegraph Association ,to take concerted action with the railway employees on any questions relating to the increases." •XKW PLYMOUTH. March 12. At the Magistrate's Court to-day Harold Gardiner, aged 21 years, pleaded guilty to five charges involving breaking, entering, and theft aL three residences and a warehouse, also with attempting to burn one of the residences. Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. TIM API". March 12. At the hide and skin sale to-day Messrs Dalgety .and Co. sold a line of caTf skins at 41.'.d to -liljd. sound ox at 2:kl to 2-Jd. and row at 21d to 22.U1. This is the first sale since December, and the Got) offered met with keen competition. MASTERTON. March 12. A chemist named Edward Stohr was fined £.'lo in the Magistrate's Court today for selling adulterated iodine. Notice of intention to appeal was given. AUCKLAND. March 12. AYork in the. Taupiri Coal Company's from the Rotowaro mine is about 300 ed-10-day. ft isvstnfcd that the truckers refused to work because no skip grease was available. notwithstanding the t:>ct that the mine officials substituted oil. Tin' truckers are reported to have given no explanation to the officials as to why they would not work, and by their action in leaving the mine without an inquiry into the circumstances they rendered the otljer mine I workers idle. The normal daily output from the Rotowaro mine is abone 300 | tons.