INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14713, 19 September 1918, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press As<kx!iat.}or.> AIOKLAN'I), .tirs day. A heavy g:ik> on t lie- -W-esfe' Coast prevented the Kara. wa- crossing tli© Manukaa ;>:.r yesterday affceruoou, and delayed many sportsmen bound 1 for llawera races. An investitive- of the Order of fh<> British Empire will be "held) by the ,1-Sov.enior-General a.t Govei'iiment Homku the momiihig-of ©levea citizeais activel> •Migaged m- patriotic wprk'snice the eoni-i.t'iiioe-ment of the war. War medal. I;vi'.l be presented to the "ftert-of-kin oi. .wo* soldiers who have died since the It-corations were awarded.. Th© Mili-:-a.ry Cross will bo haaid<xl to Airs J. Hal Icy, of Cambridge, mother of late Liuutenamt C. llalleyj D.C.M., and to .vlrs S. UuiHock,. Ponsonbv, mother o: al« Corporal W. W. Bullock. \ WELLINGTON, this day. Tho Victoria College Council List night considered a scheme for the extension of the north and south wing* •>f tho college, m order to provide rooms for the School of Economics. It is estimated tho cost of additions is about £20,000. Sir Robert Stout, considered the Government "%)os. J was not prepared to con- ! sider such an outlay, at the present j time, and suggested an appeal to tho public. It was decided -.to prepare dotailed plans before the matter is re-; IVrred to Cabinet. Tho council adopted a proposal that professors' salaries, now I sJ'tQQi, should be increased to £850 by - successive^yearly increments. I A Gazette Extraordinary announces the decision of the Government, under war regulations to operate from the first of October, restricting the licenses ol meat export slaughter houses. The regulation provides that it shall be unlawful to fellmonger any sheep-skins, other than the skins of sheep slaughtered on the premises, except, by, consent of the Controller of Imperial Government Supplies. 'Hi local trades unions last night held a conference on the cost of Jiving question. A committee was set up to "go fully into the details of . the matter. Resolutions were adopted opining that t!ie trend of legislation during the war period had been m the direction of relieving the employer of liability to wards the workman, while repress; vt' measures had been framed to curb the glowing -discontent among workers. The conference declared tho Arbitration Court a complete failure, its judgments being without weight or value. The employers, when refusing to, meet work, people to adjust , wages to meet the greatly increased cost of , living, were following a |>olicy which must certainly lead to an indu.str.ial upheaval. CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Sharemarket sales reported : Burns, Philp nnd Co. (cum. riehts). £1 18s ; X.Z. Refrigerating, £2 5s lOd; Christchurch Gas, £5 16s.