TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16374, 23 June 1927, Page 9

TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF

(P.A. Messages.) Joseph Foster, charged with the theft in England of mail bags containing £IO,OOO and with receiving them kuowiug them to have been dishonestly obtained, was again remanded in Wellington yesterday, and will appear on June 30. The Wellington Education Board yesterday, by eight votes to three, roi'Ußcd to rescind a motion that tho bead teachers throughout the Wellington education district be requested to afford accredited representatives of tho Biblo iu Schools League facilities to obtain from the school registers the names and addresses of the parents of pupils attending the schools, to enable a plebiscite to be taken on the question of religious instruction, as embodied in the Bill introduced in Parliament, last session. Among .the remits passed by the Public Service Conference in Wellington yesterday were several dealing with' superannuation, increased pensions to widows] legislation to enablo Government contributions to the superannuation fund to bo paid automatically, the removal of the limitation of tho maximum payament to £3OO per annum, and that the minimum wago of £2Oll 15s be granted to all officers except partly disabled men. A car, occupied by Messrs. Brooks and Rhodes, representatives of A. and T. Burt (Christen ureh), became unmanageable and went over a precipitous bank of the Grey river near Brunner yesterday afternoon. The car rolled over several times, throwing its occupants out, before it reached the water's edge. Both men sustained minor injuries, but suffered from shock. The Arbitration Court was engaged in Palmerston -North on Tuesday and yesterday morning in hearing an application by tho flaxmill employees for an increase in wages. The flaxmillers not only opposed the increase, but sought a "reduction on the present rates, pleading the poverty of the industry. Evidence was brought forward to show that while tho overhead charges had increased, production had decreased, that the men were already earning high wages, and production had been retarded through the men not working full time. The employees offered -to co-operate with the. millers in the taking of tallies upon, which tho Court could fix wages, but the millers were not inclined to accept, fearing the men Would go slow. This was ponied by the workers' adS'Ocate, who stated that as a further safeguard the men, if granted an increase, were prepared to accept an award of ,12 months' duration only in order to try out the, how rate. Tho Court reserved its decision.