DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 11, 11 January 1913, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

A TRAMWAY CASE. (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, January 10. At a meeting of the Tramway Appeal Board to-day, before Mr Widdowson, S.M., Mr J. J. Marlow and Mr W. Belcher, George Lanborn appealed against his dismissal from the employ of the Dunedin and Kaikorai Tram Company for alleged continued disregard of the gripman’s instructions with reference to talking to passengers.- Mr Irwin appeared for the aps?llant and Mr Stephens for the company. Mr Stephens said that he appeared under protest, as he wished to raise the point that there was no ground of appeal in the case except where there had Ticen dismissal for cause. There were two ways of dismissal : first a week’s notice on either side, and second a summary dismissal for good and sufficient cause. The employer, by the award, was given absolute right to terminte the engagement on a week’s notice, and if there was right of appeal then the provision was quite illusory. The Act created this revolution, that once an employee entered the service he was there for life unless he committed some fault. Mr Irwin contended that if Mr Stephen’s contention was correct then the Act was a farce. He submitted that employees had a right to appeal in all cases, and unquestionably where dismissal was in the nature of punishment. Mr Widdowson said that Mr Stephen’s argument raised a nice point, hut the appeal would go, and the Board would further consider the matter after hearing evidence. Evidence was then given by the appellant and other employees, and by Mr Joseph Hunter, manager, and the proceedings were adjourned until Monday. GENERAL BOOTH MEMORIAL. Christchurch, January 10. Adjutant H. P. Sharp, of the Salvation Army, representing Commissioner Richards, of Wellington, commenced his work in Christchurch today in connection with the erection of a New Zealand memorial to the late General Booth, Mr. R. E. MacDougall has opend a list in this city with a donation of £IOO. Adjutant Sharp, who will remain here some days, has already visited Oamaru, Timaru, and Culverden, in which three places approximately £IOOO was donated.

A LABOUR QUARREL. Christchurch, January 10. At the Magistrate’s Court, Wm. C. J. McGuire was charged that, on December 19, last year, he assaulted Hiram Hunter. The plaintiff Hunter, in evidence, stated that he was a City Councillor and president of the North Canterbury Labour Representation Committee. McGuire was engaged as secretary of the Bazaar Committee. As a result of the alleged use by McGuire of violent language at the bazaar, Hunter, as president, wrote asking him to resign. On the date of the assault defendant went to Hunter’s office and attempted to open negotiations, but Hunter refused to talk with him. While plaintiff was dusting his desk, defendant lashed out and his ring cut his nose. McGuire said: “111 kill you, Hunter,” Witness’s nose bled freely. He rushed McGuire from the office, and in the passage McGuire picked up a chair and threatened to “bash out” witness’s brains. He laid an information. He believed defendant to be dangerous and of ungovernable temper. Defendant, in his evidence, stated that on the day of the assault Hunter had made some remarks as to witness’s character, and he had slapped him. .Hunter had come at him with a chair. Witness had looked upon it all as a burlesque. He had thought Hunter a fierce fighting man, but had found him “a big schoolboy.” The Magistrate said that the case was one which well might have been settled out of Court. It was not a case for sureties. Defendant would be fined £2 and ordered to pay costs. CHRIST’S COLLEGE. Christchurch, January 10. At a meeting of the governing body of Christ’s College tlio Governors airproved of the system of exchange of masters submitted to thefn by the headmaster. The system will accordingly come into operation immediately. The first master is Mr. Button Carter, M.A. (Cambridge), who will arrive in New Zealand in May. Mr. Carter has been assistant master at Clifton for the past fourteen years, and has been principal assistant to Mr. Otto Schipman, head of the modern language department, and the’best known teacher and reformer in modern languages in England. Ho is a scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and a famous old Cambridge Blue. He was president of the Cambridge University Club in 1896. The system is reciprocal and one of the New Zealand members of the Chirst’s College staff will be sen tHorne to join the staff either of Clifton or Rugby.