NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1912, 21 November 1913, Page 10

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(Br Tcleuraph.—Pross Association.) " ■'■" — l — " ■- TRADE UNION AWARPS, Chrlstohurohj November 20! the Arbitration Court has given its award in tho drapers' assistants' case, tho award being the same as that made lor Wellington last year. The usual preference .clause is included, with tho following addition :*- u ln considering . tho qualification of a, union member offered in Place of a non-member, the employer ma be entitled ■to take into account sucu matters as. personal appearance, manners, and general suitability for tho work required. Tho grocers' assistants-' award was given on- the linos recommended by the Conciliation Court, Tho general labourers' demands were granted, the employers assenting." EARLY N.Z. HISTORY, Palmerston North,. November 20. Mr. R, M'Nab reported to the annual meeting of tho Philosophical Society that during his recant' visit to Australia he spent a considerable time gathering information relating to the early history of New Zealand. ■, In Sydney he discovered 163 sacks of papers relating to. the Supremo Court work of New South Wales, from 1788 to 1830. Amongst, the records was.found interesting information relating to New Zealand, Mr. M'Nab proposes to return to Australia in the autumn to continue his investigations. • SOUTH ISLAND BANDS' ASSOCIATION. ■ IflvghsargMl, November 20. The annual meeting of the South Island Bands' Association was held to-day; After'the annual report had been adopted, several.delegates : subjected'the executive, to adverse- .'sriticjsni in connection with the trouble which arose over the appointment of a judge for the present contest.' Notice of-motion-had been given to remove the headquarters of the association from Christeluiroh to Dnnedin, but as the necessary 31. days' notieo had not been given it was ruled out of order. A 'motion was then carried that the meeting adjourn- to January 22 at Duiicdin.' Officers were not elected, and aw further business was done, P. & T. OFFICERS. Oamaru, November 20. At a meeting of the local branch of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association, the following resolution was carried: —"That this branch- Considers that the preamble taken exception to by the Commissioners is a fair statement of the. ease from the Post and Telegraph officers' point of view. It is unfortunate that the Commissioners regarded it in the light of an impeachment, thus preventing the result of the eight days' deliberation 'being placedbefore thorn." POLICE HALL OF CIN &, WHISKY. Auckland, November 19, Acting upon a search- warrant, Senior Sergeant Rutledge and Sergeant Rock raided a greengrocer's shop in Alexander Street to-jijght l and seized a quantity of gin and whisky; The shop was occupied, by William and Mabel Constance Wilkinson.- Their names, and those of-three men and a woman were taken, with a view to fin-thcr prosecution. The liquor seized was secreted in various, parts of the shop and. adjoining rooms. 'When the police entered, two men, it is alleged, were drinking. SENTENCED FOR STEALINC CAS, Blenheim, November 20. At the Supremo Court to-day William M'Betft Miller, charged with stealing gas valued at £102, extending ovei; a period of three years, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour. Baring a demonstration in the jury room aft acetylene gas generated bieyplo lamp in a cooking stove exploded, but nobody was hurt. DUNEDIN DIVORCES, , Dunedln, November 20. _ In the Supremo Court to-day -decrees nisi were granted in the following cases: —Violet May Heazfevraod v, Joseph Arthur Heasdcwood, 011 the ground of desertion; Matilda Duckworth v. Thomas Duckworth, also desertion. P. AND T. OFFICERS. NetsOn, November 20. A meeting of tiro local brand] <sf the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association adopted the resolution approving in entirety 'of the resolutions passed by the recen* conference at .Wellington.