New Zealand Telegrams.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11824, 22 November 1901, Page 2

New Zealand Telegrams.

(Per Press Association.)

ARBITRATION COURT AWARDS. Wellington, November 21.

Awards in two industrial disputes were delivered by the Arbitration Court this morning. In the wharf labourers case the Court fixed the ordinary working hours from 8 o.,mi. to s_p,m., exclusive of, ..the meal • hour, excepting Saturdays, when the' hours shall be 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., all other time to bo classed as overtime. The minimum rates of wages are set down as follows :—: — Stevedore and general cargo work, "exclusive ' of work done for the Harbour Board, ordinary time Is 2d, overtime Is lOd ; discharging coal, men employed as winchnaen, plankhull rope men, and tippers., or-, dinary time -Is 3d, overtime 2s ; ,men ' shovelling in holds of shipp and trucks, ordinary time Is 6d, overtime 2s 3d ; trimming in , ships' bunkers on Home going and foreign steamers, ordinary time Is '3d, overtime .2s ; intercolonial and coastal steamers, ordinary time Is 6d, overtime 2s 6d ; rates for carrying cool, ordinary tim^ 2s, • overtime^ ,.. 3s ; overhauling work on ships; ordinary time Is 3d, overtime 2s ; carrying and stowing wort -in* freezing chambers, aboard ship, ordinary time. Is did, overtime 2s 6d,; in cool chambers, ordinary ,time Is 3d. overtime 2s. The award of the Court in the tailoresses case gives first-class coat, vest ana trouser hands ill 10s per week, second-class coat hands £1 7s 6d, second-class vest and trousers hands £1 ss, third-class, coat hands £1 5s per week for first, six months after completion orapprchticeship and £1 G.during- the next' six months, after wards" becoming _ second-class hands, third-class vest and trousers hands for, first six months j after comple- ' -ti'oir •of apprenticeship £1 Is per week, for next six months £1 2s per week and tor, "next six months £1 3s aftor which' ; they secondclass haridS; first-rclass machinists £1 10s per week,* second-class mac-hinists-£1 ss,per, per week; the -number of apprentices is to -be limited to one to four or a fraction of first four, operatives: a^rentices \ are <to|be paid * ds\";i follows :— For| apprentices to coatmaking 5s per week during the first 'four months,* with a rfuarterly rise "of 2s 6d per week rafterwards; apprentices to vest and trou-;' sers making receive 5s per week fo* .th£ ,fir-s.t ,four months with a, similar increase during the first year, *after which wages shall be increased by artcin(sromentfof;2s <"0d « 1 or , >W,epk at the end of each succeeding period of six' months until th 6 erid'iof'apprenticeship. ' ' ' ' ~i WELLINGTON HARBOUR IMPROVEMENTS. - Wellington, November 21. The committee which was appointed by the Wellington Harbour Board to deal with Mr Ferguson's report on th 6 "dock scheme, presented their at this ■ afternoon's meeting of the , Board- The com mittee recommended .that the Board approach Parliament next session with 'a, request that the Grangerstreet .block- should be. vested in tha Board, as a pez'manent endowment for dock purposes. This block was acquired by the Board some time ago from the Corporation, under certain conditions; among others that the land must be sold within nine years after -.acquisition. The Board , has .^expended nearly £40^000 on • the' block, and the committee proppse in effect that the Board should subsidise the dock to that extent,- retaining the .block as its permanent property, from, which revenue would bo" derivable. The re1 port of the committee was adopted. LAB.OUR TROUBLES AT STRATFORD. Stratford, November 22. A strike ha.s occurred on the Toko- ( Stratford line. About 70 men have , thrown down their tools. They have beett v employed at 8s a day, •but now demand an increase to 9s. I They marched in a body through the ! town of Stratford to tho oflico ol I Mr Furkert, Engineer-in-charge, and inkne a final demand, which the Department would not accede to. Fresh men are to be engaged. THE ( PATEA FREEZING WORKS. Patea, November 22. Tho West ■ Coast Refrigerating Company's Grading Works were opened at Patea yosterdayf Everything is in splendid order, and then? is a large amount of butter to be handled.