NAPIER NEWS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 5707, 2 May 1911, Page 2

NAPIER NEWS.

(Own Correspondent.) I Napieh, Mr J. Lang, of the local U I1( ]. ,JB fractured his thigh in a peculi lt last evening. He was i u ’ hrowing a stone at a morepork dislocated his leg, aud in the f*|| followed, he fractured his thigh rooe.ving treatment at the hoi DlU ,’^B The local rainfall for the April was 4 22in, spread over The heaviest fell of the L 20io on the 20th. General regret was expe ru , town when it became known that Mrs Budman, a very in these parts, had died Masterton while attending , show. Heart disease was the death. Mr Rudman aud hie motored through on Saturday m K kf^B A number of cyclists who negleoting to observe the by-uj to lights were made to bow Court to-day and were mulcted of 30s and costs. The Saturday hockey competitjo.B started on Saturday under the favorable conditions. Follower! sport now have the Borough p a playiog area of about 12 grounds. Two oases of diphtheria veloped io Tennyson street h»v, removed to the Hospital. cautions have been takeu to contacts A sitting of the Conciliation whs held to-day, presided over Hally, to consider the engine application for a Dew award. lowing proposals were agreed aud Holidays—Hours of not exceed 8 hours per day overtime be paid at the rate of a quarter for the first three time and a half for all further Work done ou Now Year’s Day, Monday and King’s Birthday paid for at the rate of time and and work done on Christmas Day '^B 1 Friday and Suudays at double Iu the case of factories, drivers of shall be entitled to the holiday, tor by tho award or agreement, work dona on such holidays overtime shall be time and Wages —First-class certificate 3d per hour, second-class driven men Is l}d per hour, and It fir work required in moving from place to place by their owq power. Filling in time to be same rates of payment. asked for unionists, though mipli^B l can continue to employ the perioDi^B l in their employ provided they members of the Union within dar month of the oomiog into the award.