The Feilding Star. Published Daily. THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1893. WORK MEN'S WAGES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 29, 3 August 1893, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Published Daily. THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1893. WORK M EN'S W AG ES.

The Hon. Mr Koevos lins introduced a Bill to consolidate nnd amend the law relating to workmous' wages, aud to make better provision for securing tho paymeut thereof. The Bill provides that workmen employed iv manual labor shall be paid weekly ; wages to be tho first charge on mono}' duo or in tho hands of the contractor ; auy assignment of money duo or received undor contract to havo no effect until all wages are paid ; the contractor is to keep accounts and must show the same to any workman whose wages are in arrears on demand; the contractee must not pay the contractor in advance ; workmen whose wages are in arrear may attach money in the hands of contractee due to the contractor, and a workman obtaining judgment against the contractor may compel the contractee to pay him from money due to the contractor. There is nothing in the Act to prejudice any other remedy which a workman may have against his employer in respect to money duo to him, nor does it aifect any right subsisting under any contract l>etweeu any employer of labor and the person employing him. All penalties to be recovered under the Justices of the Pence Act, 1882. The 11 Workmen's Wages Act, 1884," is to be repealed.

For the second time " Arbor Day " will bo celebrated in Feilding, tomorrow. We understand that the business places will be, for the most part, closed iv the afternoon so that every body interested can take part either by assisting or as spectators. All that is wanted is fine weather. As far as tho committee appointed by the Borough Council to carry out the programme arranged, are concerned, all of the necessary preparations have been mado, and it will be no fault of theirs if there should be any short comings. Although the trees and shrubs planted last year are still hidden by the fences protecting them, yet they are thriving, and in the course of a very tew years will have grown bo much as to bo a vast improvement to tho appearance of Manchester Square. Old Canterbury settlers will doubtless be able to recall to memory the cold and bleak appearance of tho " City of the Plains " thirty years ago when the Ricc&rton Bush was the only break in the monotony of the view. But tho people who first settled in Christchurch were wise in their generation, and, year after year, trees of all kinds and descriptions, gathered from all parts of the world, were planted in profusion in the public grounds, streets, and private gardens so that at the present time few towns in the colony can vie with Christchurch for beauty in that respect. Feilding possesses many advantages which Christchurch does not, thechief of which is that the NorthWest winds which too often have left desolation in their track on the Canterbury plains, are conspicuous by their absence on the Wes t Coast. The climate ia milder, and the rainfall is more general during the year. We commend therefore, those residents and settlers who are doing so much to improve the town of Feilding, and trust they will be able to do as good w*rk tomorrow as thoy did on the same day last year.