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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9475, 18 June 1909, Page 4

A smart shock of earthquake was felt at Wanganui at 8.20 a.m. Bootmakers’ Union r at Dunedin passed a resolution that a letter of thanks he forwarded to Mr Hogg for the stand he had taken with regard to a State note issue ijtnd land nationalisation. John Lumley Manning, fisherman, an old identity of Timaru, was drowned early this morning. Deceased had finished laying his nets in Caroline Bay, and it is presumed a squall then struck his boat. His body was left by the receding tide at the foot of the Northern breakwater. The adjourned cases in which William and James Ham were charged at , Wellington with bookmaking in Willis street on various dates were dealt with by Mr Riddell, S.M., to-day. Defendants are father and son. William Ham pleaded guilty and was fined £3 and costs, in default seven days. On a second charge he was also convicted and fined £1 and costs, or 48 hours. His father, James Hum. was fined £2 and costs, in default 48 hours. With the aid of the Conciliation Council an agreement has been arrived at in Wellington regarding the hours and wages of carpenters and joiners. It provides for a working week of 45 hours, with a minimum wage of Is 4d per hour. Piece work and sub-letting are prohibited except in case of stairbuilding only. At Christchurch yesterday Peter Georgius Jumino de Warrinner was sent to gaol for 6ne month .as a togas and vagabond. He had been passing himself off as deaf and dumb and ..making house to bouse visitations in the city and suburbs trading on the sympathies of the charitably disposed. He .called at the house of the chief detective, whose wife gave him sixpence, but the chief fallowed him to a hotel and found he could mkae his wants known at the bar .in good audible language, and so his oareer came f. to an end. The man bad been given garden work and began work, bat cleared out as soon as his employer’s back was turned.

An award embodying the agreement regarding female workers in the bootmaking trade has been filed in tbe Arbitration Oornt. It applies to Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, Otago and Southland. Preference is given to unionists, and the hours are 45 per week. Overtime to be paid at”fcbe rate of time and a quarter for the first two honrs, and time and a half afterwards. The maximum wage for females alter five years is £1 7a 6d, wax thread machinists £1 15a, apprentices first year 7s, second year 11s, third year 15s, fourth year 19s, fifth year 23a. The award expires in 1911.

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