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Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1926, Page 2

PAINTERS' DISPUTE. WELLINGTON, June 10. At tlio painter’s dispute conference, Mr Cromwell for the employees said they were asking 2s Od an hour and men giving instructions, to he paid Is 6d per day extfa. Replying to a suggestion that if the demands were too high there might he a danger ot people painting their own houses. Air Cornwell said a man would only paint his own house- once. A sub-elauSb was agreed to. that no worker he compelled to work longer than five hours without a meal. Employees asked double time for work on Sundays and statutory holidays, also that a meal allowance of Is 6d he paid, where necessary. There was a division of opinion on the definition of suburban work, the men demanding anything over one mile from the general post office to ho classed as suburban, also that travelling expenses he paid beyond that distance. or else conveyed to work free, the time spent in travelling to and from work to he paid for at ordinary rates. UNEMPLOYED TEACHERS. WELLINGTON. June 10. The conference resumes to-day in an effort to deal with unemployment of teachers. The Council of Education resolved to recommend that all qualified teachers who having failed to obtain positions after repeated applications, and in the judgment of the senior inspector for the district unemployed, through no fault of their own, shall, where possible, three months af‘ ter the termination of training college period be provided with temporary positions where their services may be utilised most usefully...