TUNNELLING DISPUTE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20290, 24 December 1927, Page 12

TUNNELLING DISPUTE.

NO AGREEMENT TO DATE. (Per United Pbzss Association.) WELLINGTON, December 23. A further conference held to-day in connection with the Tawa Flat tunnelling dispute proved fruitless, neither party agree, rag on the wages. The contractors state that if the present workmen do not agree to their offer of 18s for shovellers they (the contractors) will take steps to man the tunnel on January 4. As the conference has failed they reserve the right to engage whatever labour they like.

THE CRACKER XUISANCE. TO THE EDITOR. g Jß> —Christmas is here a?;ain. So also is the cracker nuisance. I understood this objectionable practice was stopped. Whose duty is it to see that it is not permitted. I have for 12 years attended an invalid who suffers from heart trouble and i 3 now in the last stages of the disease. Every cracker is an additional shock to the poor patient and an additional cause of pain to the nurse. It seems to be the ambition of a certain class to create as much noise as possible—the more nerverackinx the better —and then blame " the present aue." Why allow crackers to be sold at all?—T am, etc., Anti-Noisk. December 23.

Boots and shoes worn in a year by the women of Great Britain are valued at a grand total of about £25,000,000.