RAILWAY SERVANTS' GRIEVANCES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2849, 21 October 1908, Page 10

RAILWAY SERVANTS ' GRIEVANCES.

SPECIAL ARBITRATION COURT SUGGESTED. CARTERTON, October 16. Addressing the railway men at Cross Creek, Mr Hornsby spoke of the position members of the House occupied as buffers between the men and the management. He this might become intolerable, for a candidate with everything to recommend him might incur the displeasure of the men and be defeated by their votes. This would lead to the severance of the railway service front parliamentary interference. It was no use blinking the matter that placing the ' railways under the control of commissioners was looming in the distance. He did not want to see that come about, and he suggested that the alternative was a special Arbitration Court of their own, absolutely removed from political influence. i JMr Hornsby was given a vote of renewed I confidence with'applausa.

Among the .creditors present at a meeting in New Plymouth in connection with the bankruptcy of J. W. Berndfeon, greengrocer,, were two Chinamen. It .wa*.aacer-^ tamed (says the Ta-ranalri Herald) that one of them bad pajd x the bankrupt two years'* rent, in advance^ and had also lent him £10. "A man who -can borrow .money from a Gbinaroaa must be pretty .good," remarked one of the creditors. "You'llnever find a " Chinaman as - ©oft an that asfaid," smilingly concurred - Mr Chew Chong, the other China.maji concerned.