PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1224, 5 September 1911, Page 3

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

CHAMEEK OF COMMEKCE AXD SOME NEW MEASURES. (By Telegraph-Snccial Correspondent.) . Palrricrstcn, September -1. The council of the l'almerston Chamber of Commerce met to-dav to consider (lie Sale of Poisons Act and the Seeds Bill; also the proposed amendments in respect to industrial conciliation. The president (Captain Haydwi} was in the chair. Tho mcGtiiiß was called in consequence of a communication from the Wellington Chamber, whioh forwarded a copy of a resolution aiming at amending the Conciliation 'and Arbitration Act, and s.ulieited the'co-operation of the local chamber. The resolution of ihc Wcllinsion "Chamber wes to the effect that it was desirable that the Act should to amended this session to provide that notice should be ?iveii to employers or employees (in any iudustry) of any application, in connect ion with such industry, for registration as an industrial association or union; also that an opportunity should bn given for employers CJ employees to oppose such registration, and that there should be a right of appeal from tho decision of the. registrar upon such matters to the Arbitral ion Court. It was resolved, on tho motion of Mr. E. M''-\'ab, that the Wellington Chamber bo asked for further detnilsas to tilie reasons which they propose to bring forward for opposin" rejnstratioii. Mr. T. E. Hod<kr was appointed I?, represent the chamber on the deputation which is to viit on tho Agricultural Committee of the House in respect to the Sale of Seeds Bill No action was taken in respect to tho Salo of Poisons Bill. The president was appointed to represent the Chamber on tho deputation which is being arranged to wait on the Minister for Railways to urge the commencement of the AapierGisborne railways. At Tiritea, there passed away on Saturdav night Mrs. Elizabeth Bryant, wife of Mr". Kobcrt Bryant, at the age of 60 years. The lata.M-r-s. Bryant was one of the okt residents of the Dominion, and has lived at Tiritea for nearly thirty years. At a meeting of the Licensing Bench today tho transfers of tv:o local hotels were a! r > he VC I l iilmer.stoi l Brass Band, under Conductor Conway, played in the rotunda in the Sq-we yesterday afternoon. .No - withstanding-an unpleasantly high wind, thev had au audience. 'J.Mic Kelburno Bay Sooius who have been tramping through Wairarapa and the Forty Mils Bush, arrived in l'almcrstou on Saturday afternoon, and wcro entertained at afternoon tea by Messrs. J -\ Nash (Mayor) and G. IX Kobon, representatives of the local District Scout Committee. The boys, who have camped on the wayside during their expedition, appear to have enjoyed Iho nulius. 'L'ho verdict relurnod by tho Coroner, Mr. A. D. 'J'hPiiifon. S.M., who hold an adjourned inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs Lmily Knowlc-s at the hospital last llmrf.dav, soon nfler her admission, was to l.ie cfifect (hut death was due to wnous aponU-xy and li<-art failure. Mr \V. Jewell, who has Iwon a ramiIwr of the sUIT of (lie "Standard" for nearly a score of years, severed liia connection with that journal on Saturday, and was the recipient of a presentation from tho proprietors and fellow pressincn. Mr. Jewell is taking up dairying at. Hiinitnngi, where he has purchased a farm of 200 acxe&i