ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 83, 27 March 1908, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

OVERCROWDING IN WELLINGTON. Per Press Association. Wellington, Thursd.ir. During the hearing of the Drivers' dispute at the Arbitration Court to-day considerable evidence was called in support of the demand for increased wages asked by the Union. Mr. Eggers, a land agent, who controls the renting of three hundred houses, was called by the Union and read a statement showing in detail how the rents of various houses occupied bv laborers had risen during the last eighteen months. The increases were from :j s to 5s per week. Witness said rents were likely to further increase owing to the Operation of the new city by-laws, which, he said, were more stringent Ulan the old ones. People came to witness frequent! v and offered him is more than existing tenants paid if ho would turn them out. The workers were obliged to sublet and. take in boarders. Ho was sorry (0 admit he had known four families in ouo housa. The thing was a perfect disgrace.

SIIE4IIER,S' DISPUTE. ti Wt ' !li »Ston, Ust .\ight. J he A\ ellingtou shearers' dispute has in'cu loriiinllv referred lu the Arbitratu.li tourl by the Shearers' luion. The \ • al l ,a buer.stoii A'orth on 2nd Jjiril, is to be requested by representatives from the shearers and the employers to have embodied as an award the conditions of labor in the recommendations which were agreed to by both parties when in conference some time ago.