LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1940, 23 November 1906, Page 3

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

PRESS ASSOCIATION Wellington, last night, The Wellington Harbor Board to-day advanced its graving dook scheme another slags by deoid'ng to oall tondrrs for tbo work of construction. The dock will be 650 ft in length, 100 feet longer than tbo Calliope dook at Auckland, and 200 ft longer than the Lyttelton dook. The Board of Management of the Y.M.0.4a has aooepted a tender at £l3 000 for the erection of the Association’s now home in this city. At the Supreme Oonrt Wm. Sparrow, alias Simnts, Wm. K»ye, and John Davey were found guilty of theft, nud were remanied for senteoo?. Taa Coiif Justice said that Bparrow was an habitual orimioal, and daring the past 27 years he had been sentenced to 25 years’ imprison men\ Titnaru, last night. The Conciliation Board for Canterbury sat here to-day to settle the couditioos of employment in the paiaters and paperhangers’ trade. The Uaion submitted a list of oouditions, embodying the existing award with a few slight alterations. A few minor admeodments were made, and the Whole then agreed to, Competent journeymen are to get Is 3d per hour as ordinary ra'e and an extra Is a day if lodging away from home ; apprentices arc to be one to three men or a fraction of three. Some employers wished it to be one to two men. Preference to unionists is to be given in Timaru if the Uaion complies with certain conditions as to membership and keeping book. The new conditions ate to be mads ao award for two years.