OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1929, Page 5

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

EIGHT HOUR DAY FOR MINE WORKERS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 5. Ben Tillett, President of the Annual Conference of the Trades Union Congress, stated to-day that lie understood that in. accordance with the pledge given by the Prime Minister, the At-torney-General was preparing a bill repealing the legislation relating to trade unions passed in 1926, under the conservative Government. The principal measure of that legislation was the provision enabling an eight-hour day to be worked in mines. FLYING-BOAT FOR FRANCE. RUGBY, September 4. The French Ambassador and his assistant attache for the air service, made a trial flight yesterday in a fly-ing-boat of the Calcutta type, built by Short Brothers, Rochester, Kent, for .the French. Government. MAXIMUM LOAD LINES. RUGBY, September 4. . Two rules for determining the maximum load lines of British merchant ships are proposed by a Committee appointed by the President of the Board of Trade in 1927 v The Committee Suggests that, in view df the general understanding that the International Conference of Merchant Ships will be convened in the near future with the object of obtaining an international agreement on the subject, the adoption of the rules should be postponed until the result of the conference is known.