ENGINEERS' SQUABBLE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1733, 25 April 1913, Page 5

ENGINEERS' SQUABBLE.

■ • TflE COURT'S DECISION, fly Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, April 23. In. connection with, tho Amalgamated Sociofcy of Engineers' squabble in January last, the Courts liavo decided , that Mr. Jones' (general secretary of tho society),' the five trustees, and four other officers wero'the truo administrative authority, .. and entitled to control tho eight hundred branches of tho society. A Tcrdict was ■ entered against fhe .Executive Council, whose term of office was duly determined .' by. delegate meetings. : Ij l , January _last tho council' of the . society, after being, once forcibly ejected from the society's headquarters, was about to begin business when some members broke into the building, and forced the seven councillors towards the stairs. Four of them were violently rolled down ■ a number orstone steps, and two weTe badly injured. The provisional executive had authorised tho eviction. As no machinery existed to deal with the situation, tho question of control was. placed before the . unirt/for decision. • • Berlin, Germany, is said to bo becoming as gay a city as Paris itself. Its night life is now so pronounced that a newspaper has been started specially to cafer ' T„n™ i" fe 1S T C i', sd V D ? S Klcine Naclit Journal (The Little NigM Journal), aiid it is published at 10.30, making its appearance as_tho throngs pour, forth from -tJie pJaces 01 amusement.