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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2172, 23 April 1908, Page 2

The finals in the Gisborne Lawn Tennis Club’s tournament will bo played to-day, commencing at 1 p.m. Players aro therefore requested t-o be at the Kaiti courts sharp to time. tVairoa wants a clock and chimes for the proposed new Post Office, and at a public meeting held a week ago, it was decided to open subscription lists for the purpose od raising funds. The Government is to bo asked to provide the tower. The demands of the recently-formed local Typographical Union, which have been presented to the employers, aro very comprehensive, and include the following: Linotype operators: Day £3 12s 6d, night £'3 18s Gel, for a week of 42 hours. There is also a e.cale for probationers’ wages. Compositors : A minimum wage of £3 os for a 48 hours week ; bulk and stone hands on a morning paper not less than 2s per hour, evening paper Is IOJd per hour. Bookbinders: A minimum wage of £3 os for a 48 hours’ week. Letterpress machinists: £3 per week of 48 hours, newspaper machinists £3 os, other" letterpress machinists £2 10s. It is proposed to limit the award to the borough of Gisborne, and it is to come into force on August- Bth. of this year and remain so until August Bth, 1911. Preference in all eases is demanded for Unionists,

The Government offices throughout tho Dominion will ho closed to-day, being St. George’s Day.

It is tho intention of tho City Hand to givo an open-air performance shortly. A sacred concert also will ho given in His Majesty’s Theatre next month, and several vocalists now to Gisborne are announced to sing.

Our Wellington correspondent says tho Now Zoaland socialists aro getting on and they now have a membership of tlireo thousand. A largo hall has been secured therefor business and socialist meetings, and it has been decided to hold an annual conference.

The following names havo heon addod to tho Telephone Exchange: 307, AV. J. Barlow, private residence, Har-ris-streot, Kaiti; 407, P. Morris, Haiti ; 140, H. E. Hill, Registrar of Electors. etc., Low e-street. Deleted : 140, Intercolonial Land Agoncy (C. B. do Lautour).

Tho nominations for tho office of Mayor of Gisborne and' for the vacancy on tho 'Borough Council, caused by tho resignation of Mr. W. -Miller, close to-morrow. Yesterday tho following nominations were lodged: —Mayoralty: Mr. W, D. Lysnar. Councillor: Messrs. F. Harris and G. Darton.

Arrangements are well in hand for tho Harvest Festival to be hold by the Salvation Army oil Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday next. Brigadier Albiston, chief officer for tho North Island, will bo in charge of the services, and there will be special music by tho band. On tho evening of tho half-holiday next Week, Wednesday, tho band, by special permission, will play a programme of music in the Trafalgar Rotunda.

Dr. Bell, Director of Geological Survey, arrived from tho inland Wairoa districts yesterday, and leaves for Auckland, cn route to the Thames goldfields, this morning. He will return to Gisborne before long, and will proceed inland, where his staff is engaged in making a detailed geological survey. Tho doctor said that the had weather greatly injured the progress of the work, but during his temporary absence the survey would bo continued by Mr. Adams. When completed the result should be of great value to his Department.

It is seldom that a Government Department caii show such a record of promptness and despatch as the Labor Department has lately accomplished. On the recent formation of the Gisborne Typographical Union, an application to register the Union and to approve of its rules was sent to the Labor Department, and within one week of the application being forwarded a reply was received from the Department announcing registration. Practically the Union was registered within three days after application, a step that in many other instances has taken months to accomplish.