INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14714, 20 September 1918, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Par Press Association). * ' WELLINGTON,, this day. \ The executive of the Wellington' Red Crpss has' received a letter from the Governor-General covering a suggestion by Surgeon-General Henderson that tlie Red Cross consider the question of erecting workshops for orthopoedic treatment. One is to be started at the % consumptive sanatorium at Hatuma, and it(\ is proposed to establish functional Avorksh-psj.at Wanganui . t Coiwalescent Home,* surgical hospital, Masterton hospital. Dunedin convalescent home, Montecillo, Invercargill, and an extension at Hanmer. # • <iThe City Council last night considared • tnp. tramway position, AA-hen a proposal Avae tabled to approve of the business done m committee the previous day. i An amendment was moved that a bonus of 10 per cent, on ordinary time and overtime be. giranted. The mover criticised the Council for the manner m Avhich tlie men's demands had .been, shelved from time to time. Then the Cpunoil;; had attempted to placate^ tha-mea, with- -a bald offer of -5s to married men. They ought to get enough to live properly on. Tlie amendment was not seconded. The •motion, was carried, tlie : effect of which is 'tliat the mere be reqiwred to continue at Avork mider the existing agreement. .; ■-' NELSON, this day. V_»lr Arthur Han»ford> , manager of thi> Kairui-a marble quarry .supplying marble to the Parliamentary Buildinga, died m the hospital v last evening from injuries siistainedl by a. fall from- a mail-part -\t I&chmond on Wednesday afternoon. He asked' the driver to stop, but jumpsfd "tt while the cart Avas stiO moving. He tell, sustaining a.'«evere fracture of the base of the- .«kull< v Depoasedt vm a.n exptert at quarry .work, and, is,, brother of on© of the contractors for Parliamentary Buildings. .>'..'- ;- '.i .' •; • i 'j CHRISTCHURCH, thi s day. ,'The Education 'Conference last night passed a* , i*,e^plution ,that > full ■>■ daytime education be compulsory up to the age age of sixteen years, and that no exemptions be granted at an earlier age on the ground of attainments. • The following motion,- emanating from the Board of Governors of the Technical College, was carried : "That the privileges of free education %c, extended to all persons prepared to take approved caur^^.,a«d vwha.opntinue to give evidence of due attention to- and use 6f that education." .