LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14837, 14 February 1919, Page 6

LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. In the Arbitration Court Judge Stringer awarded Robert Millar £500 compensation against R. Andrew Hel- . laby, Ltd., for injury to plaintiff's heart while in defendant's employ. His Honor said it was on a par with cases in which it had been held that where a worker died from a pre-existent disease accelerated by accident he came within the scope of the Workers' Compensation ! Act.

! There was considerable delay in the tramway service to-day, as the apparent result of a go-slow policy, failing a settlement of the dispute with the company re wages and conditions, j CHRISTCHURCH, this day. J Sales on 'Change : Union Bank £64, reported Union Bank £64. HuddartParker Co. £1 17s 9d, New Zealand Refrigerating £2 16s, Mason, Struthers Co. £1 4s 6d. I The Industries Committee of the .House of Representatives commenced its Christen urctr sittings to-day. James D. Laurensnn urged the establishment Of iron works and the fostering of the existing industry. He urged the claims of Para para, where there were excellent facilities for carrying on the industry. In the? pig iron industry seventy per cent, of the cost of production could be set down for labor. The chairman said that Mr. Laurensen's evidence regarding cost conflicted with that given in Wellington, and a thorough investigation would have to be made into the figures. ' Before the Conciliation Council in the^ general laborers and wool- and grain, store employees' dispute an agreement was arrived at with a fixed' Is 6d an hour flat rate. The Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald, Minister of Agriculture, has telegraphed to Mr D. Jones, president of the North Canterbury executive of the Farmers' Union, stating that he had brought before Cabinet the representations made by the Christchurch deputation in regard to the price of wheat for the 1918-19 crop. Cabinet had carefully considered the representations, and have decided t« adhere to its previous decision that the price be 6s 6d per bushel f.0.b., good milling wheat. The scheme of handlinff adopted last year 'will continuefor another year.