DOMINION NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14706, 5 June 1920, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, .June 5. Patrick Redmond, fireman on the Mapourika, was convicted and fined £5, or one month's imprisonment, at the Magistrate's Court for having disobeyed the orders of the second engineer while the vessel was oil the high seas during the voyage from Napier to Wellington. The engineer ordered the man to work tip the steam pressure to the normal 1601b, but Redmond refused, and an officer and another turned to and brought up the required pressure. AUCKLAND, .lune 5. Arrived—Waikawa (7 a.m.), from Wellington: Rira, ketch (3 a.m.), from Nukualofa; Jubilee, schooner (4 a.m.), from Niue. A downpour of rain in the early morning, accompanied by a strong wind, made it exceedingly uncomfortable for suburbanites, large numbers of whom were conveyed by vehicles of all kinds, while a great many walked. There are no prospects of- an improvement. The races have been postponed to Monday. At the Supreme Court Houa Herewini, a young Maori, was found guilty of manslaughter arising out of the death of another Native at Awanui at February, and sentenced to three years' reformative treatment at Invercargill. The third day's racing has been postponed until Wednesday. CHRISTCHURCH, .Tune 5. At the Conciliation Council, representatives of the recently-formed Clerks', Cashiers', nnd Office Employees' Union met representatives of the gas companies, freezing works companies, and agricultural implement makers. The following rates of pay were agreed upon —Males, first year 20s per week, second 255, third 30s, fourth 40s, fifth 525, thereafter 80s: females —first, year 20s, second 255, third 30s, fourth 355, thereafter 40s. Males over 25 years with five years' experience £4 4s, males with five years' experience tfs. A bonus is to be paid to females of four years' experience of 5s and all others 3s. Those employees who have passed matriculation or senior civil service or commercial accoutancv 5s extra. A week was agreed to, no day's work to bo loncer thaii nine hours. WANGANUI, Juno 4.. A rueetiim of those interested in manufacturing was held to-day when the question of returns asked for by census and Statistician's Offico was fully discussed. It was resolved that no returns be made out until all the other Employers' Associations in New Zca land had been communicated with and their replies received. It was agreed tlmt (the questions were unnecessary and too inquisitorial. j . FI3ILDING, June 5. Another motor car accident occurred lat Sandon last, night. A car travelling | from Palmerston to Eltham "took the railway line instead of the road jitid overturned. One passenger,. Mr Harrison. was seriously injured. The others' escaped with slight injuries. WHANGAREI, June 5. Arrangements have been nia<le by the Whangarei Borough Council, for the purchase of over a million superficial feet, of timber contained in the Pukenui State Forest, for building purposes within the borough. NELSON. June 5. I T'h'i funeral of'Mr Alfred Gr"enfield was largely attended. Deceased occupied many most, prominent positions in Nelson's early history, including jthose Vf Provincial Secretary and Treasurer. Stiocndinrv Magistrate, and Commissioner of Crown Lands, and was a settler of over 70 tots' s+pndimr. TE AROHA. -Tune 5. A four-year-old girl, the daughter of Mr W. A". Brinklev, died in hospital of burns. Her clothins: caught while she was playing near a'copper fire. A Dalmatian. Marin Pucar, committed suicide by jumping from the Mangate bridge into the Waihou river.