GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14353, 27 January 1911, Page 5

GENERAL NEWS.

ARBITRATION COURT APPOINT- I MENTS. Last night's " Gazette " notifies the reappointment, of members to the Arbitration Court as follows: —Employers' representatives, Mr William Scott, of Dunedin, and Mr William Pryor, of Wellington, acting member: workers' representatives, Mr J. A. McCullough, of Christchurch, and Mr W. T. Young, of Wellington, acting member.—(Press Association.) CORONATION MEDAL. Mr Craigie, M.P., has been approached by the chairmen of school committ«es in various portions of the distr:ct, ;ind asked whether the Government intended supplying Coronation medals to school children. It is felt that such medals would be highly prized as souvenirs of the King's Corouation. Mr Craigie made enquiries from the Prime Minister on the subject, and yesterday received the following telegram. In reply to your telegram of the 21st inst. the" Education Department is calling for tenders for Coronation medals for school children, with a view to distributing them to all school children, and this will be done provided that suitable tenders are received. —J. G. sVard. M CONCILIATION AT HOME. Mr John an English Labour member, who passed through Timaru yesterday, has hud twenty years' experience of the working of voluntary conciliation in England. Since the adoption of the conciliation system in England, he told a reporter, great developments had taken place in the ironsand steel industry in the way y,i introducing auiuinaci- appliance?. The sum totid oi the rootiLt was improved conditions and bailor wages. The workers, he said, havo b«cn able u get a good share of the benefits produced by tho installation of up-to-date machinery. "When a now inaciuficcamo in they yave it a square ckai, find consequently the ern.ploy.-rs were inclined to trfit them handsomely in the negotiation.* on th-' Conciliation Board. "In the iron nnd v--! industry' 7 says Mr fter an experience of th-? <:M T*is'-rli«/! a: strikr:*:. we detrrmiivd :v. .*n r .y years a'.:o ih;»t inch methods of *:qnc! ; >in:r wa.zos were antiquated, and that -f iiuv.Asaifi;]. the mo& always suffered-'

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES. The niiiii'R'r ol p( rsons who ai'iived ■n New Z Ntlaiui .lining last- month whs anil the nuii-her ivho departed "(iu'2. Fur Derember I'JO'J the figures arc—arrivals B«W. departures '23o'-!. The total number "f arrivals lor tho u-ist vcar was :r,.VG'.I. alld "I tlcpnv-u,ri-s':s-yin. .-.""I""'"' with as.Ooo arrivals ami ilrpiirtures hi 1!KH). —(Press Association.)