NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1883, 17 October 1913, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—Prces Association.) $ BRICKMAKERS" PAY. "USELESS COMING TO COUNCIL." Christohurch, Octobor 16. Tho Canterbury Brick Pottery Workera' Union matlo a demand for tin allround increase in wages beforo tho Conciliation Council to-day. Tho rates proposed are: —Moulders, 10s. thousand •square, day work; fancy off bearers, Is. 4a. per hour; pieco workers, Is. thousand; table boys, Bd. thousand; setters and drawers, Is. 4d. hour; clay fillers, Is. 4Jd. hour; burners, 10s. shift; pottery workers, Is. 3d. hour. Tho employers declined the increases. After a fruitless discussion tho case waa ordered to go to the Arbitration Court. "Soon it will, bo quite useless'coming to tho council at all,'' remarked a ■unionist. "No result is over secured, ovory case going to tho Court." LIBRARY BURNED. Dunedliii October 16. The Publio Library at Alexandra South has been destroyed by fire. Tho building was insured for £85, and tho booka and fittings for £190, in the Royal Office. LOST ON MT. PEEL. Tlmaru, October 10. Mr. 0. M. Burdon and his son Eustace, Mr. Scott and his sister, and Mr. A. Woodbury, a party who wero'loston Mount Peel on Tuesday, were safely found by search parties last night. They became lost when in a fog, but fortunately found a disused hut and camped thero. Thoy suffered no in-' jury, but went rather short of food. foundatiosTstone laid. Chrlstchuroh, October IG. This afternoon, in the presence of a large gathering,. Bishop Julius laid the foundation stono of tho new day school buildings in connection with St. 1 Margaret's College on the site ill Cranmer Square, which was for many years j occupied as tennis courts.