NEW ZEALAND

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 443, 14 June 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND

(Per Press Association). PALMERSTON N„ last night. At the inquest on the boy Render, wiio died from injuries sustained by being caught in thq shaft .of a gas-en-gine, the jury added a rider to verdict of accidental death that, notwithstanding the certificate issued by the inspector of machinery, they did not consider the gas engine properly protected to insure immunity from accident. AUCKLAND,, last night, Percy Rubery was fined £5 and costs in the Police Court ior coining ashore from the? - Zealandia, from Sydney, without a license, before the ship was discharged from quarantine. CHRISTCHURCH, last night, The Christchurch Frozen Meat Company declares a dividend of four per cent. BLENHEIM, last night. David Young, driver of a locomotive on Brownlee’s timber tramway, was crushed between logs whilst loading timber trucks from a loading bank at ’Rae’s Valley yesterday. His injuries consist of fractured ribs and an internal crushing. A public meeting of ratepayers decided to erect a new library and reading room as a memento of Coronation Day. At the same meeting the name of Dr Clcghorn, n practice in Blenheim for a great many years, who died at Wanganui this week, was mentioned with a touching tribute of respect and affection. A suggestion that swimming baths be constructed as a memento to this popular medico was received with warm demonstrations of approval.

DUNEDIN, last night. At last night’s meeting of the Trades and Labor Council the following resolution was passed : “ That this Council, after carefully studying the effecta of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act are convinced that every employer who paid the recognised union rates before the Act came into operation, has considerably benefited by the Act, as the sweating employers have been compelled to obey the awards and pay the same rates as honest employers. The Act, if wisely administered, must improve the industrial status of the country. Notwithstanding the opinions expressed by employers associations here or elsewhere, nearly all disinterested persons of‘ eminence have reported favorably thereon, and New South Wales and Western Australia have adopted similar measures.”-

NELSON, last night. Welcome rain fell last night, after’a long spell of fine weather. The Coronation Committee is advised by. the acting-Premier that moneys voted by, the City Council for Coronation celebrations will be subsidised by the Government if spent on permanent memorials, and not on festivities. It is now intended to alter .the proposed arrangements..

.UNIONISTS DISSATISFIED,

STRONG CHARGES MADE. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, iusj. night. At last night’s meeting of the Wellington Trades Council cons derable dissatisfaction was shown with me way in which the Arbitration Court is working,, and one of two recent decisions were warmly, criticised. One speaker accused the Judge of' doing what Was practieally altering an award when merely astked to interpret it. Another stated that the representative of labour sat there as a wooden man and said nothing; .while two other members! of the Bench represented the employers and ruled on his behalL lYet another case of grumbling was”.that the arbitration system had taught employers how to organise, and unionists were now in a more hopeless position than in the pre—arbitration days;. A hope was expressed that the conference of delegates to be held next month to consider the position of the unions under the Concil aliion and Arbitration Act would lead to an improvement on the present conditions,,

A MEDICAL SCANDAL,

'ASSOCIATION’S SURPRISE, {Per Press Association), CHRISTCHURCH, last night. A' meeting of the Canterbury section of the Medical Association was field last night, at which tiie subject of commissions from chemists to medical practitioners was discussed. The following resolution was carried unanimously : “ That this Society objects to such practice on the. part of its members, and expresses surprise that the Pharmaceutical Soc ety should have made/ such a charge against them. No instance having been reported, and as the Pharmaceutical Society has not addressed any communication to the Medical Society directly on the subject, the latter is unable to take any action in the matter-.