Canterbury Trades and Labour Council

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4716, 7 August 1893, Page 3

Canterbury Trades and Labour Council

Tho Trades and Labour Council held its USUaI fortnightly meeting on Saturday at the Temperance Hall, Gloucester street. There was a full attendance of delegates. iMr W. C. Large (Vice-President) occu- • pied the chair. A quantity of inward and outward correspondence was received and , dealt with, after which the election of a ' President was proceeded with, and resulted in the unanimous selection of Mr W. C. Large, of the Plumbers and Gasfitters' ! Union. Mr T. H. Davey (Typographical Association) was elected to the post of Vice-Preoident, rendered vacant by Mr Large'a promotion. Both gentlemen re- , turned thanks for the honour conferred [on them, and the Council adjourned to Saturday, August 19.

[ The Auckland Herald says :— The recent arrivals from Sydney have great difficulty in getting into situations, owing to the prejudice which has been raised through ; the number of Sydney arrivals who have i made the acquaintance of the police since ! their arrival here. It is scarcely fair that the innocent should suffer for the guilty, and Mr Ferguson, the Labour Bureau agent, is doing his best to dispel such prejudices and suspicions where he is satisfied the party seeking for work ia deserving of it. Mr Ferguson has not been able to let the whole of the contracts for felling one thousand acres of forest in the Oxford-Rotorua bush. The fact is all tho skilled bushmen are fully employed, and the men who apply are, for the most part, physically unfit, pr unskilled in this branch of labour.