LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 49, 1 June 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Oamaru flounnillers on Friday reduced the price of flour by :0s per ton, the shipping price sow being £l2 per ton, f.0.b., Oima.'u.

The London correspondent of the Wellington Post, writing on 25th April, says:—“l have had a letter this week from Col. A. K. Stewart, of -the Rifle Brigade, showing that our men arc now comfortably settled down-fin their new field of operations, Northern France. ‘The war has not devastated this part of France,’ he says, ‘and work goes on as usual, but in the hands of women, girls, boys, and old men, more honoi to them. There are no sound-bodied men left; all are in the trenches. I can quite understand the French soldier’s love of his country. It certainly, is one of the fairest countries under the sun. The southern part- is a garden of herbs, fruits, and flowers. The blossom everywhere was a picture.

The reserved judgment was delivered in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court to-day in the case, Inspector of Awards v. The Petone Woollen Mills Industiial Union of Workers, in which the plaintiff claimed £2OO as the penalty for an offence under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration in that the defendant during February and March, instigated certain workers employed by the Wellington Woollen Co. to become parties to an unlawful strike, the workers being bound by an award under the Arbitration Act. The Magistrate, Mr Riddell, he[d that although notices were given to close employment, a strike had been proved on the grounds of collusion between the workers to cease work and the action of the men in leaving employment in a body amounted to a strike within the • aning of the Act; and further, as the majority of the members of the '!efeul-| ant union were parties to the stiiko, the defendants must he deemed to have instigated it. Judgment w; s given for plaintiff for £SO. A ‘■ecimty *• r appeal was also fixed.—P.A.