GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 43, 21 June 1915, Page 3

GENERAL.

A proposal by the Buller County. Council to raise a loan of £2OOO for 1 the purchase ami erection of a lime kiln at Cape Koulwiud, with subsidiary] kilns in different parts of the country, was carried yesterday by 590 rotes to 22, with two small returns to come.

The Wellington commercial travellers' took a mock court to Palmerston on Saturday in. aid of the wounded soldiers' fund. The tint's mulcted oil townspeople amounted to over JL'ooO. The sale h!' art union tickets will probably bring the total to £BOO.

The Court of Arbitration has iiled an award in Auckland in the dairymen's dispute. Dairymen have been granted a minimum wage of £2 LOs, pins commission, when the value ol milk sold exceeds a certain total. A man is also to receive commission when required to collect accounts other than In's own accounts. Dairymen

are to receive overtime under certain conditions, seven days' holiday on full pay and one quart of milk free per day. ..Preference to unionists was granted.

In connection with the annual football mate]', to be played ;«t the Palmereston North Winter Show between Wnnganui and Te 'Ante Colleges, on Wednesday, the 23rd, a sub-committee of the Manawatu A. and P. Association, in conjunction with the members of the Wangauui Collegiate Old Hoys' Union; is organising a collection by young ladies and sisters of the boys on "that day for the fund for the relief of Maori and pakeha wounded soldiers. Already £2OO has been subscribed.

The Buller Hospital Hoard has tip to recently been represented by four members from the county and four from the borough. Owing to the inc'e;.:? in the county valuation the county became entitled to five members and the borough to three. Borough members could not agree amongst themselves as to which one should retire, so the provision of the Act requiring a ballot was adopted, and the name of Mr A. Leaver (Mayor of Westport), and who of recent elections headed the poll for the borough representatives; was drawn, and Mr Leaver reyigned.