DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1923, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELF.CItArH--I , JiR I'ItEKS ASSOCIATION.] EMPLOYERS .MEET. WEI,LINT 1T(IX, November 98. Th tvonly-Ji'ixt annind meeting ef trie New Zealand Employers’ Federation was hold to-day. .Mr T. Shaiier Weston, president, was in the chair. The repot t and balance-sheet were adopted. ’Hie subsequent proceedings were taken in camera. During the afternoon tea adjournment, opport unity was taken to present Mr Weston with a handsome etiuueii of table silver, inscribed: ‘‘Presented to T. Shaiier Weston. Esq., by the Employers' Association of the Dominion of New Zealand ns a token

of their appreciation of his services to their organisation and to commemorate the completion of his ten years of 1 dliee tis their president,'’

The presentation was made by Air Bigneli, ef the Wanganui Association. 111 a short, fidietiiiiKs speech, at the romlu.xhm of which the gathering give three i beers for the p're.-ideiii. and tliiTo for Mrs Weston.

The picsideiit, who was taken by sin prise, was deeply moved by tho manifestation of the federation's regard, and responded with an appreciative reference to the loyal stippoi i

which had at all times been accorded to him by the lederation and the head oliiee stall’.

CARUO-.I’JLKERIXH. NEW Pl.Y.MOrni. Nov. 9S. An English cargo recently lauded hero from the liner Dorset i creaks the worst in-lame of pilfering experienced by local importers. Heavy losses of shoes, wearing append and spirits \v ie .sustained. Cheeking si ill i.- tinliui-lied an:! the lull loss, which is very hea\y cannot, he ascertained. Small o) enmgs were made in the eases, which were Idled with paper and cardboard

1 NEW PLYMOLTH SESSIONS. •I NEW PLY.MOrm, Nov. 88. At the Supreme Court this afternooi 1 Arthur Reginald Borland was sen tented to eighteen months' imprison ’ met! i. 1 dill tin cl! t with a senlenee al I readv being served, for false jsrelenee land t!i<*i 1 . Norman Claud IJuriis wa ' lined £99 for a false declaration mule; I the Marriage Act, and was ordered t, 1 remain in custody till his line i. |a d the period not to exceed fourteen d y- \\ El I.INCR.)N SENTENCES. WEI,I.In'i.TON, Novembei £O. Three pn-nm-r. who had pleaded guilty at (In- Meg.i-i tm ll . i a,u* UIme Mr .In-.lire Mt.eLr, got- u. (b... Sapreiiie ( nut to-d.iy foi M-nteiue. James I os lei. iudereiil a , ,;ttlt ~n a male. "i- 0 oi deled I v. o yearn’ I'efotmatiw treatment. I.eslie ( liiil'les Tbaeltwell. alias Turner false pieleiiie.s. two years' bald labour. Ida Minnie Te Puui, aged 17 Ijivtiking. entering and theft, detained for re- | he mat iw purposes not extending four j flop-i'K KINC, AND sClinriL HuLIDAYS. WEI.LI NOTON. November 99. A def.til at ion accompanied by .Me-s.s llud'on and Aimoie. waited on I bn, C. Anderson, acting Minister of Education. to-day. to urge that liop-piekin;, holidays in the Motueka district wliiili bad been stopped by I lie .Nelson Education Board, lie reverted to. It was pointed out that i tmsidernhle baidship would he sull’erod by the poorer lamilies if they wore [lnis deprived Iron; earning extra money to clothe mil Iced the children. The Minister replieii sy mpatliei hally staling that he could not sec Hint nin (tuestimi ol child lahoitr. in the accepted sense of i he term was involved. A recommendation would he made to I]n> Nelson Board to go hack to the former custom. It was tor the Board to decide however, whether it would agree. SHOP WOIIKKIts. WELLINGTON. November 99. j On the application of the X.Z Simp | Assistants’ Industrial Association, a

Workers’ Conciliation Bitting lias beefi arranged for January 30, 1994, for the purpose, of discussing proposals for a Dominion award covering the shop wo rivets in the hoot, hardware, stationery, fancy goods, furnituie. and soft goods’ trades. Detailed proposals will he filed on December 12. It is understood that the present District Awards are practically the same, and that the employers who have no Dominion organisations fall in with the proposals for uniform eindithms thmughout the Dominion. Over bCOO employers in all parts- of the country are being cited in the Dominion application.

IT NX EL t'( iLLAI’S'ES. NADI El!. November 99. It was reported in Napier this evening that a tunnel on the East Coast Railway, fifteen or twenty miles from town, col lapsed lute this afternoon, burying three men working there. The only information available when the Telegraph Office closed was to the effect! that one man had been rescued and that In- wits alive. Coin, and doctors iron: Napier are at the scene of the accident.