INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16606, 9 December 1924, Page 7

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Pross A&sociatioa.i TAUMARUNUI, this day. Gus McGann, aged 45 years, a butcher, of Matiere, was found hanged this morning. BLENHEIM, this day. At the Supreme Court Richard Titus Cragg, aged 38 years, charged with illicit relations with a girl fifteen years and two months old, was found not. guilty.

CHRISTOHURCH, this day

A demand of the New Zealand Federated Typographical Industrial Association of Workers for a Dominion award formed the subject of Conciliation Council proceedings this morning. An application of the Southland Country newspapers for exemption was referred to the. Arbitration Court. The union asked the following rates of pay : Day news operators i!6 15s per week; day jobbing ditto, £7 15s, for night operators 20 per cent, extra; casual operators 4s per hoar for day work and 5s for night- work. The employers offered, for day operators in the four cities, iJS 5s per week; outside the cities £5 Is, and other rates in proportion; casuals 3s per hour for daytime, and 3s 6d per hour for night work. The case is proceeding.

The Union assessors at the Conciliation Council said they were asking for an increase in wages because, the newspapers and printing trade generally were, in a prosperous condition, and the employees wished to share in the prosperity. The employers replied that if the increases were granted the cost of jobbing would go up, because the increases would be passed on.