Tho Court of Arbitration has mode an award in accordance with an agreement arrived at in the sa<'dlcry industry in tho Wellington industrial district. This award affects 90 employers. It fixes tho hours of labour at. 48 eaen week, and provides that all journeymen shall be paid Is per hour, with certain exceptions. Ison- , unionists and unionists are to receive equal. . pay for equal work. A nurses' dinner was held in Wellington to-night, and was largelv attended.- Only women were vivow.nt. Ihe chairwoman, . who was u distinguished nurse; is n friend of Lord Robert, and weara o medal for nursing under fire in India. She is now the wife of a Wellington doctor. Tho nurses aopeared at the dinner in uniform, and a few lady guests in evening dress. Several speeches wero made. ■ The Y.M.C.A. Hockey Club ■ -will play on the Oval at 2.45 this afternoon. ; . A Christchurch telegram advises that Aberration was scratched yesterday lnornina , foi'the Winter Cub,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13945, 3 July 1907, Page 5
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