DUNEDIN NOTES

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 152, 21 March 1908, Page 6

DUNEDIN NOTES

(hi TELEGEirn—srEci.ui corbespokdekts.) ; • . • March 20. It is' considered' that' it will be necessary ' for the citT to spend about £5000 during, tho next year in gas main extensions in tho subNmetcen men were paid; off this week by a well-knowii foundry firm, ! more or less as the direct result of conditions following on tho engineering award recently fixed after conferenco between, masters and men. The firm in question were not represented at this, conference. They do not consider it necessary to employ tho class of men provided for'at Is. 4d. per hour, and tho offer, they made to retain tho services of such of their men as considor themselves in this c|ass was toiectod, the men being accordingly paid off. The whole matter has been referred' to tho Labour Department. . _ ' The chairman of 'the Elcctrio rowor and Lighting Committee (Councillor Shaddock)' saicl last evening that lie thought the Council and the citizens could considor themselves' very fortunate if, after the Waipori plant had boon running three years, it paid working expenses. It was only in its infancy. Ithad not been running a year, and their losa for the year was estimated at about £4500.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, oat ii : is seldom so interesting. Strict. adlifthuicn. outside a witness-box, to aotual and litoru! facts sometimes constitutes a form of slavwy; it certainly converts tho otherwise person into a boro. —"Quoqb- "