DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[bv TKLF.GHAI’H —RElt PRESS ASSOCIATION.] PRISONER ESCAPES. AUCKLAND. July 21. Frank liallnr, a young prisoner, escaped from Mount Eden Gaol at daybreak-. He mounted to the top of an unused watch tower, and forced the trap-door. He dropped upon his own blankets -to a wall above the execution yard, and then walked to the main outer wall, where he jumped down near the back of the warder’s house. His

escape was soon discovered. The prisoner was traced some di-lance, but was lost in a heavy fog. Rallar is serving six mouths for breaking and theft, and three years’ reformative treatment. SAD FATALITY. WELLINGTON, duly 23. Linde Owen Aitchison, a liny of 3). was scalded to death at I’etone by upselling a saucepan of boiling potatoes on himself. ANZAC DAY PAY. AUCKLAND. July 22. The Arbitration Court has given its judgment on the question of whether wages must ho paid lor Anzac Day under the award, being an appeal by the Inspector of Awards against a .Magistrate’s decision, in a case against the Federal Boot Company, of Wellington. The Magistrate held that Anzac Day. being a Sunday, and wages being computed under the award on an bourlv basis, the defondants were not bound to pay journeymen for Anzac Day, and could deduct the amount of that day’s wages, judgment being given lor the defendant.

Justice Frazer said that Anzac Day was not included in the schedule of holidays to be rccogiiisud as such under Clause 9 of the awards, and. bv law. that day was required to be observed as a Sunday, and not as a holiday, and it did not come within the holiday provisions in an a war <l. While, in the absence of a special provision in an iiwuid, no deduction in respect to Anzac Diy or a. holiday could lie made from tlie weekly wages payable to weekly workers, the present workers were not weekly workers. Apart Irom the provisions cl the factories Act, i-.civ was nothing in tho award, or elsewhere to prohibit deductions being made from their wages in respect ol holidays. While in the ease ol Anzac Oav there was no prohibition at all against time lost, being dedueled Irom their weekly earnings, the ofleet ol the legislation was that hourly and weekly workers lose wages for that day. oxt in cases where the provisions of the Factories Act. or an award of the (■mire, required those to he paid in full. While weekly workers, in the absence of any provision in their award, petniitting deductions to be math', do not lose wages in respect ol Anzac Day. it was an undesirable situation, for unless remedied by legislation, it would lead to Anzac Day become a bone of contention between two classes c workers. If Anzac Day was observed 01, Sunday, this difficulty would m-t occur. The court’s opinion was that tlu. Magistrate’s judgment was sound in law. The appeal must fail. Being a rest * a sc, no costs were allowed.

CARPENTERS AWARD. AUCKLAND. July 23. The Dominion award in the C nr| entfi'r; ant! .loiitoiN i.lisput:.* tlu* liotiis at forty-Inur por wcvk : minimum fm- eai pciiter- ;,nd joiner- machinists 2- 2'd pe. hunt' I'm mit-ido workers and 2> lld !' r tacto:.- • ''-km The award mine- into torn.- en nth. August ami operates for two yens. MAORI TROPHY. TE KTIII. July 23. A meeting of natives of Maniapr.to tribe decided to present a fifty guinea cup for inter-tribal competition among .sew Zealand Maoris, the conditions to fie similar to the Rnnl’ttt ly Shield. A FIRE. WIIANGARFI. July 23. Kamo Town Hail, which housed the Town Board Archives, public , *‘»«-:.ry and picture show plant was totalis do--i l oved by lire late last uiget. No water supply was available. i library kooks, and most m > ’j‘‘ '"'.su Board documents were re- • f-.'L Pell was insured for £-'99. C olant for C.W. and M-rarv |or ■ The origin i- undetermined. pos-ih'> due to fusing ol electric wires.