LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13395, 1 June 1914, Page 6

LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) ! WAIHI, this day. As tho out conns', of a special meeting last week, tvn 1 .Miners' Luion cxteutiw waited on tnb superinUnclent of the Wiwln and Grand Junction mines today m respect to recent dismissals. Tin* companies hare- replied : "We. reserve to ourselves the ngnt to engage or discharge, any employees we choose." WKjXIXiJION, this day. The death occurred on the .s.s. Jiotorua, from London, of .]. fjteel, a secondclass ]Kissen<rL'r, aged ■ 63, a native of j Ayrshire, .M;.:tl«i::'J. 11^ was ucconipanied by his wife and dai.^hrer, and intended settling m the Dominion. ]>UNEprX, this day. Edward Frederick I>awrence, master butcher, was charged at the Police Court thi3 morning with penalising 1). Cameron, iv person, iu^his employ, fm 1 rendering personal service required by him under the Defence Act. by dismissing him. Cameron, m JuV evidence, said that lit* was m Lawrence's employ three weeks before going to , camp, permission to do so being granted by Lavvrencc. When witness returned to work he was told he was jiot wanted, and that there was another .man m hit? plnce. For the defence, counsel said that the real reason of Cameron's dismissal was incompetence, and he was onjy employed temporarily while one of tho 'hands was away. Mr Bartholomew, S.M., said it was certainly a ca?e for inquiry, ■•but he thought the explanation given by the employer was adequate ai|a an jvnswqr to tho charge. 'The defendant had never shown any hostility to Canuron attending the camp. The case would be dismissed.