WELLINGTON STOCK AND SHARE MARKET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3118, 18 February 1909, Page 7

WELLINGTON STOCK AND SHARE MARKET.

(By Telegraph—Special to Age)

WELLINGTON, February 17. Messrs R. Woodhouse and Co. report the following sales and buyers' quotations of the Wellington Stock Esxchange: —Sales: Waihi, £9; Talisman, £2 7s 3d; Wellington Deposit, 9s. Buyers:—National Bank, £5 Is 6d; Bank ofjNew Zealand, £8 lis; Feilding Gas Co., £1; Gear Meat C 0.,£2 10s; Westport Coal Co., £6 3s; Portland Cement Co., £1 12s 6d; Talisman, £2 7s; Junction, £1 6s; Waihi, £8 19s.

COMPLAINTS OF CO-OPERA-TIVE WORKERS. By Telegraph —Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 17. Mr H. J. H. Blow, Under Secretary for Public Works, held an enquiry at Domett yesterday into thd ccmpliants made by the co-operative workers on the railway construction works. It was explained to the men ihat the first supposed delay in the payment of wages was due to the fact that men were constantly arriving on the works after October 6th, and it wis thought that it would be quite a fair thing to pay on the date which was selected. The second delay was due to the holiday season intervening. The spacial circumstance having been removed there should be no irregularity in future. In regard to the holidays, it was stated that the Enginear had made a mistake when he ruled lhat a ten r# 'B* holiday was compulsory. If tha men had telegraphed to Wellington they would have been informed that they coild work if they chose to do so. The Department was agreeable to provide all sanitary conveniences necessary, and also to furnish firewood aid coal at cost price. In regard to the request for timber for the floors of tents, the married men were informed thatithia would be done where t jere were women or children in the tent?- They were warned not to burn

the timber so provided. The systsm of pavment was discussed, but o"* this point the Department was obd Tne Minister had previous.y ini irmed the men specificially that the rates

would not ba raised, and that they compared well with the rates paid in other parts of the Dominion. Mr Blow, however, undertook to visit several of the cuttings and sae the sort of material whicn was being lifted, 'lhe dismissal of H. Campbell, one of the workmen who had taken an active part in the labour trouble, was referred to, but Mr Blow absolutely refused to discuss the causes whish led to it. If Mr Campbell had been present at the inquiry the matter could have been discussed. There was a dispo=ntiun on the part of the men to drag the subject in "by the heels," but Mr Blow checked this by informing those who. "wanted information," that they could "keep on wanting it."