LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10965, 7 May 1907, Page 1

LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS

(Per Pre3-i Association.) AUCKLAND, lastn ight. • The Hon. J. A. Millar left .for Whangarei last night. He returns to Auckland on Wednesday. .' v :, WELLINGTON, last night. The Hon. Geo. Fowlds, Minister for Education, left for south last night. • The. President of the Arbitration, Court has given~an interpretation of the' award in tha Typographical trade ' as far as -it' concerns Wellington, to the effect that jobbinpr compositor^, are entitled to be paid a weekly wage of £3 without any d-ediiction fbr the holidays specified inicjer the' award. .'.'. . . %•'•?.. .[&¥, : The Wellington Tailoresses' arid Pressere' Union to-night passed the" following resolution : "That the New Zealand Factories Act, for thei protection of -women and cliildren is the best. factory Act in tbe world, and tliat this Union regrets* that Mr Hogg; M.H.R. for Masterton, should go. to far but of his way as to write to the Minister for Labor in' the interests of non-interested parties"^and ask the'Minister not to enforce : the Saturday,, halfholiday, clause, in '''country districts. 1 '; The proposed'^Parliamentary trip to the . head, of ' the Main Trunk railway, has been abandoned for -the present, owing to the damage done to; the roads in the district by the recent heavy floods. DUNEDIN, last night. The District Coronet; conducted an inquiry at the hospital this afternoon into the circumstances surrounding the death of P.ter Flannery, a farmer, residing at Deep Stream, where injuries were sustained # on Friday, April 26th, by a fall from liis. buggy on the road between Clark's Junction and^ Deep Stream bridge. Flannery. Was brought into Dunedin hospital on Tuesday las^ where he succumbed on Friday night. He was 38 years of age. The jury's verdict Was that the deceased met his death by being accidentally thrown , from, a buggy. The "Hon. John Roberts has been"appointed a member of the University Council in succession to the late Dr. Bums, f The Arbitration Court has given 'an interpretation of clause 2 of the "felt hatters award. It -holds that the clause means that there is to ba weekly employment-. A worker is to be paid at the rate of not less than £3 per week for a "week of 48 hours. He is not entitled to be paid for holidays or for days on which, through sickness or other similar "cause, he is not at work, but he is entitled to bo paid for days on wliich he is ready to work but liis employer does not give him any work to do. - * V Tlie industrial dispute between the hairdressers' assistants and master hairdresst . ers of Dunedin arid suburbs has been set ! down Tor hearing before: the' "Arbitration Court,' reference to whicli has been sent directto the Court for settlement. The employes make the following amongst other demands : The hours of labor shall be 52 per week, exclusive of meal hours ; recognised regular hours of work shall be fixed by each employer in each establishment according to the circumstances .of Ms business, but^the day's work shall end not later than six o'clock in the evei._ ing on four days of the week, not later than one o'clock in the afternoon of the weekly half -holiday, and . not later than ten o'clock in the evening of Saturday. The employer shall so arrange his houre -ns to enable his workmen to -have one hour for dinner between" the hours of 12 noon and 2 p.m., and in all establishments the hours shall be so arranged by the employers as to enable their workmen to have on Saturdays one hour :for dinner between noon and 2 p.m., and one hour for tea between 5 and 7 p.m. The j minimum wages to be paid* to journey - | men shall be £2 10s per week, hair workers £2 15s per week. (Special to Herald.) _\. Dredging returns : Sandy Point 50ozs, : Rise and Shine 48 and 25ozs, Enterprise 35ozs, Rising Sun 31ozs, Perseverance 22 and 18ozs, Hartley and Riley 13ozs, Notown Creek 42ozs, Pactolus 35ozs, Bignell's Notown 12ozs. Quotations : Alexandra Lead, sellers 3s, Bignell's Notow;n buyers 26, Electric 15s, Enterprise 4s 3d and ss, Hartley and Riley buyers 12s 6d. Perseverance 3s and 3s 6d, Notown Creek 10s and lis, Pactolus 25s and 325, Rise and Shine ,14s and 15s. iThc Molyneaux river is Bft 3in above normal at Alexandra. •