DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1924, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

' ItY TKI.KCIIAI’II —S’IIKSS ASSN., COl'VTtldltT. !•• L.OOI) DAM AGft ASSISTANCE. ' WELLINGTON, .Illlit* 18 Gahiuet. considered to-day tin* cast* ■ ut tlid Hooded areas on tin; llauraki 1*I;i iit . It. was decided that ii there it re settlor.-: who rt*t|Ui'i't* as.-Tslanee. hunts will lie ativaneed to tliutn lor the purpose ot rcmsiatmg their dairy herds, anti enabling them to t-oiu-meitee operation!, m Spring. COi’NCI I. OT- EDUCATION'. \\ ELLINGTON. .1 mil' IS The Council ot Kdneation eoinineneed it sitting in-day. Mr .J. Caughley. Director of Education presiding. Two commit tees were appointed to deal with tile major items on the order paper. Other matters, it- was decided, will he discussed Tiy the Council ns a whole. A proposal that an "Education Week should ho Jield in Wellington towiirds the end ot the present year, in order to increase public interest in education, was placed before 'lie Education Hoard to-day, lay the Director of the Wellington Technical College (.Mr I. Howell), who suggested that a conference of eduea'uonal bodies might he held to consider the matter. Atfor a discussion, the Hoard agreed to call a conference. 1t.0.1. ANNUAI. MEETING. 0.1i.U. NOT EA VO I'll ED. WELLINGTON, dune 1!)

11l movinjf tin* :i(l(i]>lion of tin* report and balance sheet ai tin* annual nicotine; of tlie* ltailway Ollieors Institute, .\!,r .1. Itohorlson, President, said: “Nearly thirty years has elapsed since in:' ore;amsation was broiiohi iirfir Ix*iup; ; lull ninoli of Tts work has stood the tost of iinio. Thoro was talk now of rosnseitatino llio “olio hiy; union” idea. Inn from wliai passod recently ho ooiisidorod iTioy oould procood 'witii o(|Uaniinity as a separate oi'oauisalion, looking; after our own all'airs and atTeiiiT.no to the wants of our own members.” .Mr llohortson referred to the compulsory retirement of monikers after forty years' service which, lie said, provided an open ipiestiou as to whelehr it was a TiTessuiy: or a curse. lie also referred to I lie recent strike which the eonfereiiee would consider at a later

stage ami to the Institute's proposal for the increases in salaries which lie claimed were reasonable cost of living had risen during the year.

A motion was carried to the effect l..ai night work be paid for at an additional rate between Toe hours of ten p7m. and six a.in. A proposal front AucklaicT and Invercargiii ffiai overtime be paid for in i ii'ii instead of time < nT, tvas rejected.