ARBITRATION COURT.
INVERCARGILL, February 2(7. The Arbitration Court sat at Riverton to'da\ to hear a dispute between the miners of Round Hill and the companies. Tho chief points of disagreement were overtime, holidays, wage 6, and preference. The' workers asked for an increase in_ wagee all round, and payment in cash instead o£ by cheque. Decision was reserved J February 21. The Arbitration Court heard legal argu* ment and reserved its decision to-day in th© compensation case tc Walter Rouse, ■who was injured in the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's stores at Bluff, and who died.
An ordinance forbidding 1 proprietors of hotels, restaurants, and cafes to allo^ worsen to smoke in such places has been ini.odurtd by Mr T. Sullivan in the New. "i'j-k B00 1 i of Aldermen. \fter !>o!<r closed for upwards of two \oa>-> ov.'irm, ro two serious subsidences^ thr- Alexandra Graving Dock, Belfast, on« of th" largest in the kingdom^ was cublicl* • -opened reociWy,
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Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 24
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161ARBITRATION COURT. Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 24
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