TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1918, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

i'PER press association. —COPYRIGHT.] LOCO MEN’S PROTEST. AVELLINGTON, Oct. 21. The- largest meeting of the WeTlington branch of the New Zealand Locomotive, Firemen, and Cleaners’ Association ever held resolved: “That tlie brunch demands that the Government immediately give effect to our claims put forward for the last five years for increased wages and over-time for night duty between the hours of 9 p.m. and A a.m. This branch calls upon the Executive Council to immediately take steps to get their requests recognised and agreed to by the Government, and pledges itself to assist the Executive Council in anv action it deems necessary to obtain these requests.” “The branch also desires emphatically to protest against the working of so much overtime, which a man is called upon to do in spite of the fact that 1 the busy season is not in yet. Long hours of work at irregular hours and at night are not conductive of good health.”

RUNNING SLOW. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 21_ All to-day the slow running of the tramcars, as in strict accordance with the rules disorganised every time table, ind the cars were running as much as twenty minutes late. On the longer runs, like Ricarton, Sumner, and Papanui, the delay was very inconvenient for passengers who relied on keeping business appointments but the public so for are taking the new order of tilings with equanimity.