DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1931, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

DAIRY FACTORY WORKERS PAY. (By Telegraph, Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, August 8. By mutual agreement, an application by the Dairy Factories Companu s’ Association for a new award, in the northern district, and an application 'by tho employees for exclusion from the ten per cent, cut, have been detuned until" the end of the year, when, failing the parties reaching an agreement at a conference the Court will grant a special hearing of the dispute, a c Wellington or New Plymouth. Local disputes in other districts will also be postponed. » Yesterday, Mr Justice Fiw-ser suggested the parties confer which they did, and this morning, Air J. Roberts for the employees, said that all the cards had been placed on the table by both sides, and the farmers’ position appeared bad indeed. “We are willing -to 1 wait for better times,” he said “but surely, then the employers will restore the ten per cent, cut.” The Judge congratulated the par-lies in doing the wise thing. He added: “I imagine! that by December things will be improved. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. CHRISTCHURCH, August 10. Violet -Beatrice Moore, 29, a domestic, 'married,' living apart from her husband,, pleaded, not guilty and was committed for trial on a charge of unlawfully ■'abandoning' an infant, which was found alive in; an empty house ten days ago. The police said it was hoped the- child would live. The police that that accused made a statement that the baby was horn in a house. She intended to go back later and get -it but became frightened and did not. ' MOTOR SPIRIT REDUCTION. WELLINGTON, August 10. The reduction in the price of motor spirit of a penny a gallon announced from Auckland applies to tbe whole of New Zealand as from this morning. It is stated this price reduction is due to a general decline in the export prices from America. INTOXICATED DRIVER. WELLINGTON, August 10. Alfred Richard Arney, a motor foreman, aged 45, was fined £25 to-dav toi intoxication in charge of a car and his license was endorsed. Counsel lor -Amey -said that he had been a salesmanager for Dominion Motors for seven years. He was married with five children and counsel- was authorised to say -if defendant could keep his licence he could keep his position. Mr Woodward, S.Tvi. :— “I don’t want to deprive a man, who has five children, of employment if I can do justice without it.”