LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
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BE AG FE COI'NCIL. GENEVA. Juno 8. The Connell of the League ol Nations has opened. Mr Chamberlain urged economy by tlie Health .Section, whose expenditure was a million I rani s in 192 d, compared with seven hundred thousand in 192-1. The Council decided to refer the subject' to the next Assembly of the 1 league in September. GENEVA. Juno S. A protest from Abyssinia against its inclusion amongst the spetial zones where tfa flic in arms is prohibited. was adjourned to next session, as tlie Arms (Vmlorenco i> dealing with the matter. NIGHT BAKING. The International Labour Conference here has adopted, by SI to 20. a convention prohibiting the making ol fit-end. pastry and other flour oantcelioncry by all persons, including the proprietor', a' well as the wotkeis. dining the night. The term “night” is to signify seven consecutive hours, the beginning and end of which shall fie fixed by a competent authority in each eotliiiry. alter consultation with Hu employers' and workers 1 organisations. and the period shall include the interval between 11 at night and live in vhe morning, except when the climate nr season requires the interval to be between tut at night and lour in the morning.
The new convent ion will come into fmvo on the Ist, .January. 1927. Another convention has also been adopted classing poisoning by lead and poisoning by mercury as occupational diseases. It provides for compensation to be (taid for the-workmen uho are incapacitated, or whose death is caused by such diseases, such payment is to be in accordance with the principle of national legislation relating to compensation for industrial accidents.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1925, Page 2
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