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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1317, 21 December 1911, Page 6

A black-edged card, with the following inscription,-appeared on tho notice board at the main" entranco to_ the wharves vestordav —"Wellington Wharf Labourera Industrial Union of Workers.-The funeral of our late comrade, William WrixOn. will take place from Wilson s mortuary at 2 p.m. to-morrow (Thurs(hy) 2tst inst. All members are requested'to abstain from accenting engagement for tho day on which tho funeral is held. Sgd.) O. C>. Parland, • secretary." Wrixon, a stevedore employed by the Union. Company, (lied on Tuesday from injuries received in a serious accident sustained on the Queen's Wharf ou Friday morning. If the members..ol" the union obey their secretary's request, there will be no work on the wharves today. but those who ought to know tho men say that there wilt lie sufficient men available to work all the cargo to bo handled. Socioloeifd: "Do you have much trouble keeping "down expenses?" Tho toiler: "Not 'so much as keeping up the revenue." "She wants to bo n sister to me." "Von can ea.silv get. her out. of that notion." "How?" ' "Treat her o.s you woolcl a sister/'-