COASTAL SHIPPING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14655, 24 January 1912, Page 6

COASTAL SHIPPING.

UNION AND COMPANIES CCNFEIiRING. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Jan. 23. Tho conference between representatives of the Seamen's Union and the Shipping Companies came to an abrupt termination ti!u3 afternoon, when the Union officials, owing to » difference oi opinion with the companies' representative;, gathered 1!!) their papers and left the room. IE is understood that the hitch occurred wiieu the-con-' dirions «f work were being discussed Ono of tliio men's representatives informed a reporter tliat tile, shipping; companies had been guilty of a breach of faith, and had gone, hack on something to which thoy liad previously agr.'.-ed. Beyond this meagre statement unfiling: could he learnt from the Union officials, while the owners' representatives declined to make any stntcmen b whatever. Later in the day the companies' repiP.'icnialive-; met some of the Union's oilicials. Kis understood that the breach was healed, and that the conference will ho continued to-mor-row. COASTAL OFFICERS'"STRIKE. THE GUILD PIIOSEOTTED. WELLINGTON, Jan. 23. As a. tverpiel tn tho recent trouble bc- | tween the Merchant Service Guild and tho owners of tho coastal steamers, the ln.-,iicctor_ of Awards proceeded against tho Merchant Service Guild to-day, in the Magistrate's Court, o.niming :£2K) penalty under section 0 oF the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1003, for inciting officers <,[ yokels to strike. Mr JJ..'!!. Ostler, of the Crown Law Odiee. prosecuted, and Mr A. L. ji"|-diiiun anoearcd on behalf of the Evidence was given by roprc/ontn- ' ,' s ,i"' Krv '' r; ' l shipping companies. I and the further hearing was adjourned till to-morrow.