LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1549, 19 September 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Post and Telegraph and Telephone Offices throughout Now Zealand will bo open on Dominion Day.

Is it not accepted that it is duo to the worker to get as much money as possiblo for as little work as possible?" This was a question Mr. Justice Sim asked Mr. 11. Hunter (union renmentative) during tho heaving of the Drivers' dispute in the_Court of Arbitration yesterday. Mr Hunter replied that he wished to give that an absolute denial. . . His Honour remarked that a great (leal of tho evidence seemed to tend that way. . . . Mr Hunter replied that it might bo the case" with ono or two men, but the majority of thf drivers he knew were men who looked after their employers' interests. Speaking in tho Court of Arbitration yesterday afternoon, Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of the Employers' Association, pointed out that the Trades.and Labour Councils were fast becoming strong political bodies. For this reason, the employers might yet find it necessary to raise stronger opposition-r-by legislation, perhaps— to any fnrlhcr,j,rcstrictions in tho matter of preference.' They contended that it was altogether wrong to compel men to pay money to an organisation, whoso funds might be used for political purposes quite opposed to Hie views and opinions of those who wero compelled to contribute.

The State Schools of Wellington aro to observe a public holiday on Mondav next, Dominion Day. The matter of celebrating (he occasion nt the schools is being loft tho Education Board to individual schoolmasters.

An overtime-saving clock" was- suggested to be in exisfenco in Auckland in the establishment of a well-known carrying firm. Tho suggestion was made during Arbitration Court yesterday. A witness for the employers in the Drivers' Dispute was asked if he knew that tho clock, by which the men'were timed, was fast in tho mornings and slow at night. The witness laughed. ''Would you bo surprised to learn that it is known among your men as the overtime-saving clock?" was the next question. "It is the first timo I have heard of it," retorted tho witness.

_Mr.- P. S. Hanslow, of Cudgebegong. N.S.W., has been informed by a firm of solicitors that a man named" Whitehead recently died in Victoria, and left him the whole of his property, valued at .C2OOO. It.seems that over 30 years a#o Mr. Hanslow found Whitehead, who was a tramp at the time, lying seriously ill on the sido of the road. He conveyed him to a hotel where ho paid his board, and also paid for medical advice. When Whitehead got better Hanslow gave him 10s. in cash to help him on his way. He had entirely forgotten the occurrence until he received this letter.

At last night's meeting of the Victoria College Council, it was decided to take steps to hold an election to fill the vacancy caused by the absence of the Rev. W. A. Evans, and to notify the Minister for Education that Mr. ,T. Graham had been absent for nioro than the lime allowed.

In yesterday's report of the Fish case in the Magistrate's Court Mr, C. A. L. Treadwell was reported as deposing "that he had been aware that Wardroppe was obtaining volumes of the Consolidates Statutes from' Fish. Ifc (witness) had obtained a set of five statutes from Wardroppe, and hod sold the set to Professor Von Zeidlitz for X 7. nc had Teceivod ss. from Wardroppo as commission. Three of the five volumes

had been marked Tress' Boom' and two of them 'Mr. Speaker. H. of R,'" Mr. Treadwell states that his deposition was that the volumes had pieces of leather on the back which were subsequently discovered (o be covering the words "Press Room" and "Mr. Speaker. H. of 11."