S OUTHLAND NEWS
l’er Press Association, Invercargill, last night. The Arbitration Court sat here this afternoon to hear the disouto in tiie ear-pL.nteii.-jg trade. Tiie Union’s demands an.- on the same fines as those at Dunedin, 1, 4ri nn hour, 4-1 hour per week, appreritic s indentured one to four men, preference to unionists. The employers’ case closed when the court rose lor the day. Too chief difficulty seems to bo incompetent workers, of whom it was admitted
tin re was a large number. Tiie A. and P. Winter Show opened today with wet, blustering weather. The exhibits were only ton short of last year, and the samples of grain and roots shown are as good, bur it is doubtful if the bulk will approach these in quality after such a season. A feature of tiio show was practie.o y tiie sw<!< ping r.f the board for cnee.se prizes by Hit: Edc-nJale factory, which takes first and second for the five cwt lot, same for two cwt, fuil cream ; same for 2 cases loaf, and first, second, and third for single cheese. Mr fcjawcrs, the manager, also takes a 20guinoit gold watch for having won it two years in succession. Tho only outside factories competing were German Bay and Oiniuii. Private butter-makers took almost all tho prizes. The Titiroa factory look first prize for 1 cwt. fit for export in class two.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 924, 24 June 1903, Page 3
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