DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGit.vrn —rEit rp.Ess assoTTatio.v.] SHIP.S' OFFICERS AW-'.RT). ■WELLINGTON. March 28. Ju.stico Frazer, in the Arbitration Court, announced that a new aw aid for masters and officers of vessel trading on the New Zealand coasts had keen agreed upon. The Court settled a clause in dispute on the lines oC rerent award'. “We have found it impracticable.” he -aid. "to alter the clauses relating to wages and hours, except that, in the former we have niada t* preliminary classification. The parlies did not furnish ns with sttllicient material to enable its to do so in one. but we have let! it: open to the parlies to aur:-' to fuller ela-silicatlon or to reopen the m liter I dole the Court. It is left epen for tite patties to agree on the conditions generally a (tooling th extended river limit vessels'. Tite aunt id will tome into force on April 9CL. and continue until .March J 92 I.' AUSTRALIAN TOPIC WELLINGTON, March 27 Last Friday tlm secretary of the New Zealand Football A sociation cabled to the secretary of the New South Wales Football! Association asking him to advise urgently the probable date ot the first mate!: of the New Zealand tour. To-night he read a reply that the first match would probably he played on Mar 21, which was earlier than expected. JOCKEY SUSPENDED. BLENHEIM. .March 20. W. Maimer, jockey, received a letter from tite Australian Jockey Club stating that the two years’ disqualification imposed mi him Dr inicrfercm-c with Meuangdo at the Park meeting had been reduced to two years' suspension from tiding.