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employed at the meat company's works crushed his finger in refrigerating-machinery. He returned to work in the afternoon of the same day. Balclutha (1). —A man in flax-mill killed while fixing the stripper. One of the pulleys on main shaft flew to pieces and struck him on the forehead. DAYS APPOINTED FOR WEEKLY HALF-HOLIDAY. The following is a list of days appointed by the different boroughs under " The Shops and Shop-assistants Act 1894," and "The Shops and Shop-assistants Act Amendment Act, 1895 " : — Tuesday Afternoons. —Foxton, Papakura. Wednesday Afternoons. —Auckland and suburbs, Wellington and suburbs, Dunedin and suburbs, Palmerston South, Palmerston North, Opunake, Hokitika, Cambridge, Cromwell, Havelock, Kumara, Napier, Pahiatua, Marton, Gore, Milton, Eotorua, Ormondville, Invercargill and suburbs, Hamilton, Arrowtown, Eiverton, Onehunga, Woodville, Kaikora North, Waverley, Blenheim, Tolaga Bay District, Queenstown, Winton, Mataura, Turakina, Hawksbury, Tapanui, Lawrence, Hampden, Eoss, Bull's, Dannevirke, Eichmond, Picton, Port Chalmers, Feiiding, Hastings, Brunnerton, Campbelltown, Nelson, Wyndham, Southbridge, Waipawa, Clinton, Greymouth, Taradale, Clyde, Opotiki, Kaitangata. Thursday Afternoons. —Christchurch and suburbs, Ashburton, Naseby, Timaru, Akaroa, Lyttelton, Greytown, Eangiora, Whangarei, Westport, Gisborne, Amberley, Kaiapoi, Thames, Eoxburgh, New Plymouth, Temuka, Kamo, Geraldine, Stratford, Tauranga, Oamaru, Balclutha, Carterton, Te Awamutu, Featherston, Te Aroha, Wanganui, Alexandra, Ngaruawahia, Allanton. Friday Afternoons. —Manaia, Patea, Hawera, Normanby. Saturday Afternoons. —Outram. NAMES OF PLAGES WHEEE INSPECTORS OF FACTORIES AND AGENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT ARE STATIONED. Auckland, Akaroa, Alexandra South, Amberley, Arrowtown, Ashurst, Ashburton, Awanui, Blenheim, Balclutha, Bluff, Brunnerton, Bulls, Christchurch, Cambridge, Carterton, Clive, Clinton, Coromandel, Cromwell, Cuiverden, Dunedin, Dannevirke, Dargaville, Eketahuna, jEltham, Fairlie, Featherston, Feiiding, Foxton, Gisborne, Greymouth, Geraldine, Gore, Greytown North, Green Island, Hamilton, Hampden, Havelock, Hawksbury, Hastings, Hawera, Helensville, Herbertville, Hokianga, Hokitika, Hunterville, Invercargill, Inglewood, Kaikoura, Kaitangata, Kumara, Kurow, Lawrence, Leeston, Lincoln, Little Eiver, Lumsden, Lyell, Malvern, Mataura, Maketu, Manaia, Mongonui, Martinborough, Marton, Masterton, Mercer, Mercury Bay, Methven, Middlemarch, Milton, Mosgiel, Moawhango, Napier, Nelson, New Plymouth, Naseby, Ngaruawahia, Ngapara, Oamaru, Onehunga, Ophir, Opotiki, Opunake, Ormond, Ormondville, Orepuki, Otautau, Otaki, Outram, Oxford, Otahuhu, Ohingaiti, Otorohanga, Palmerston North, Palmerston South, Pahiatua, Papakura, Patea, Pembroke, Picton, Pleasant Point, Pahi, Queenstown, Eaglan, Eakaia, Eangiora, Eeefton, Eiverton, Eoss, Eoxburgh, Eotorua, Eussell, St. Bathan's, Stratford, Tapanui, Taradale, Tauranga, Te Aroha, Te Awamutu, Tenui, Temuka, Thames, Timaru, Tolaga Bay, Upper Hutt, Wellington, Waipawa, Waipukurau, Waitara, Wanganui, Waimate, Waverley, Westport, Whangarei, Wyndham and Edendale, Woodville, Waitotara. LIST OF PLACES WHERE AGENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT ARE STATIONED. Ahaura, Bealey, Charleston, Clyde, Coalgate, Collingwood, Cullensville, Denniston, Dunganville, Half-moon Bay, Howick, Huntly, Kaiapoi, Kanieri, Kamo, Kawakawa, Kawhia, Kihikihi, Katikati, Mangawai, Okarito, Paeroa, Pahautanui, Panmure, Port Albert, Pukekohe, Pungarehu, Spring Grove, Stafford, Spit (Napier), Takaka, Taupo, Waipu, Wairoa, Waiuku, Warkworth, Waikaia, Waitati, Whakatane, Waihi.

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BOAED OF CONCILIATION. First Day—Monday. The Board of Conciliation for the Canterbury District sat at 10 a.m. on Monday in the Provincial Council Chamber. Present — Messrs. Beswick (Chairman), T. Gapes, Frostick, J. Chalmers, and W. Williams. Messrs. Arnold, Ferguson, and Milligan appeared for the Bootmakers' Union; Messrs. Turner, Bridger, and Pyne for the Manufacturers' Association. The statement upon which the Board was called upon to adjudicate was as under :— " Notice is hereby given to the Board of Conciliation that, on the 30th day of March, 1896, the said New Zealand Boot Manufacturers' Association Industrial Union of Employers, of which body Messrs. Skelton, Frostick, and Co., of the City of Christchurch, in said colony, bootmanufacturers, are members, submitted to one "William James Osborne, a member of the Christchurch Operative Bootmakers' Society (hereinafter called ' the said Society '), which Society is federated with the said Union, and all other members of the said Society, and also to the said Union, certain printed conditions of labour, and a partial statement of wages, a copy whereof is hereunto annexed and marked ' A, , for the further employment by the said firm of Skelton, Frostick,

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