LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 6 October 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Increased Dairy Payout Following on the fncreases announced last week for dairy produce, the directors of the K-uku-Manakau Dairy Company have decided to increase their payout to suppliers by 4d per lb. of butterfat. This will be retrospective to August 1 and payment will be made on October 20. At a later date the company will make a further bonus payment of 1.716d per lb. on all butterfat supplied between November 1, 1946, and July 31, 1947. Chiltl SuGcumbs to Injuries Gwyneth Deraman, aged nine years, died in the Masterton Hospitai on Saturday morning as a result of injuries .received when she was struck by a lorry near Greytown on September 24. She had been getting a parcel from a service car and ran round the back, when she was' struck by a lorry. The inquest wa's opened on Saturday before the district coroner, Mr. Taylor, and adjourned sine die after evidence of identity had been taken. Dairy Workers' Wages The question of payment of retrospective increase from November, 1946, in dairy farm workers? wages has been referred to the Minister of Labour, Mr. McLagan, by the Dairy Products Marketing Commission. An early meeting of mterested parties was hoped for, said Mr. W. N. Perry, Dominion president of Federated Farmers, last night, but until a decision was reached and the order gazetted, farmers should not make any retrospective adjustments in wages back to November 1, 1946. D rivers' Wages The Court of Arbitration was asked by the New Zealand Master ,Carriers' Association at a sittmg of the Court yesterday to review its decision to apply the full increase of 10s a week under the standard wage pronouneement, to drivers covered by the New Zealand Motor and Horse Drivers' Award. The employers ' claimed that the wage position of drivers under the award had been improved since the Court's 1945 pronouneement and that they were not entitled to the full 10s. The Court reserved its decision. Transfer of Air Service The transfer of the Pacific Islands air services to the National Airways Corporation from theRoyal New Zealand Air Force, which was to have been completed this week has now been delayed for another month because of lateness in the delivery of converted' Dakotas from Australia." The Sunderland service between Auckland and Fiji is ready to be taken over, but as the air movements personnel are the same both for this and the Dakota service, it was thought advisable to leave it in air force control' till a complete change can be made. Fatal Car Smash One child was fatally injured and two adults and another child, all from. the same family, were injured when a car d'riven by Mr.' W. J. Lamberton struck a post at the corner of Antigua Street and1 Oxford Terrace, Christchurch, about 4.15 p.m. on Saturday. The child who died of injuries was Graham William Lamberton, aged six. Those admitted to hospital were Melva Lamberton, aged eight, condition serious-; William Joseph Lamberton, driver of the car, condition satisfactory; and Joan Lamberton, his wife, condition satisfactory, An eight-weeks-old k baby, who was uninjured, was also admitted to the hospital, v