TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1921, Page 1

TELEGRAMS

(ItV TEI.ECttAI'U —I’SU ritESS ASSOCIATION] OUT OF THE SLUMS. AUCKLAND, Dee. <J. At the Police Court Mabel Ryan, 2S. | Frances Ellen Gledliill 21, and Queeui o llarwood 18, found on Chinese pieniises were charged with being idle and disorderly. Ryan was also charged with being a rogue and a vagabond. All accused were stylishly dressed. The police gave evidence that when they visited the Chinese premises they found all three girls scantily attired in a room with a Chinese who had very little clothing on Ryan and Harwood were plated on probation for three years, the fomur to go to Magdalen Home, Wellington for I*2 months. Harwood was jiut rii three months probation at the Salvation Home, Auckland. 111 the case of Gledliill.; decision was reserved. ALLEGED FRAUD. At’CKI AND, Dec >). At tho Supreme Court, .Maltilda Pint* a, widow', sued Aune Violet Burrows tor £2OO. alleging misrepresentation in negotiation.' whereby she was induced to lieconie a partner in the defendant's business of a toilet specialist. Dcfco I* ant, she alleged, asserted she was tailing C. 311 t,, £3.7 per week front the business, ami with plain''lt’s assist ante the takings would amount to alxiut £7b ]' r week. Defendant claimed to remove warts and moles cure sore eyes and lenitive whiskers. She got 3b guineas lor removing a man’s heard. The man .-aid he wa-s not satisfied. Eventually plaintiff did not receive three guineas 0 week, she was accustomed too tlra.v Defendant asscr'e.l her things would be all right. The tase is proceeding. FOR WEST COAST. WELLINGTON "December 'J. There is very little change from the < olid it ions set down in the National Coal Agreement of hist year to he I< 1111111 embodied in the Coal Miners Award for the Westland district. This was tiled to-day ill the Court of ' ration to-day. The Court said: 1 hal it had endin'oilted to adhere to the renewal 1011diiiou that the award lor wages should la* is iiciirK a- possible 011 the basis of tho lull rales, plus Oil per cent, to plot C worker:, and 00 per cent to time workers is waj the intention ot the National Agreement. 1 * 'Clio Court says the present piecework rate of 7s (id was made up of 5s standard wages and 2s (id increase. The latter has now been reduced to 2s 0:{<1. The new rate will lie e O:Jd. The time rate now is made up of Bis standard wage and (is increase. The latter is replaced by a rate ol os and thus the new rate is lbs. The award is subject to six-niunthly-review. ARBITRATION COURT. .1. T. BA PL NOT A CANDIDATE. DUNEDIN. December 9. Mr .1. T. Paul lias declined nuinination for the position ol Workers Representative on the Arbitration Court In announcing his decision, Mr I aul said: "Mv only anxiety in this connection is that the unions, when the time comes for official nomination, will he careful to choose a man who is in sympathy with the principle of arbitration, so that the whole community may leap the advantages ol the system. CHINAMAN FINED L*bo. AUCKLAND. Dee. !>. Two Chinese. Ah Pong, anti Ming Yin were charged at the Police Court with having opium in their possession in a form suitable for smoking. Wong Hung the proprietor of the premises was charged with having permitted the smoking of opium. Ah Pong gave evidence that he was addicted to opium smoking, having been previously fined £0 for having opium in— possession. All articles found on tlie premises were his. The Magistrate said he was satisfied Pong was dealing in opium as well as being addicted to the dm*. He was lined CM I ill default throe months’ imprisonment. Deeisou regarding Hung was reserved anti the case against Yin was dismissed. COLERIDGE ELECTRICAL FAILURE. CHRISTCIIHiCH, December I). The supply of power from Lake ( olerjdgo having fallen away by half owing to two turbines being out ol action a meeting was belli to-night to go into Hit' question ui altering the Arbitration awards Lo enable work IP be curried out at night there, without the necessity of paying overtime. II the load i< not distributed, industry will suflV, through a shortage of power. It was resolved: “That (ids joint meeting of representatives of employers ami employees recoin mend that a clause he inserted ill all awards alfeeted. making provision for joint, reprcsnlations of employers and employees to li\ I hi' hours of work during the period which the shortage o| electricty prevails.” It was also resolved that employers and employees should report to Mr Gavey and Mr Hitchcock, General 1 ager of the City Council electricity department, the directions in which, to any extent, economies in the use of electricity could he ailected during the period of shortage. WATERSIDE!! FINED. WESTPORT. Dec. it. In sentencing a waterside winker named Hall to thieo months’ haul Inborn, Mr Mnutisell, S.M.. said il was a notorious lad that llictl- were rampant oil all w atci fronts in the Dominion. In makibg that statement lie did not wish to cast lodcclioii Oil all watcisidors, the majority of whom he believed, were holiest citizens. One thiel makes a lot of trouble, ami lie could not understand the unions admitting such men. Tie would like authority to prohibit Hall working on the wharf as his membership was detrimental to the union.