OIL STORE EMPLOYEES.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 445, 29 May 1937, Page 4

OIL STORE EMPLOYEES.

No final sef lement was reached yesterday when the healing of a dis_ i pule be tween New Zealand oil store I employees and the oil companies of 'New Zealand was resumed at Wellington, before the- Conciliation Commissioner, Mr S. Ritchie. The hear;ing was previously adjourned in* De_ j comber last to enable r-presentations I to be made to the Minister of Indusitiies and Commerce. i _ I I DECISION AT LAST. i A decision has at last been reachIcd over the Carter bequest. A meeti ing of the council of the Royal So- ! cfety of New Zealand adopted a re- | rent whereby an observatory is to be i established at Kelburn which will be ■ fith d with instruments and which i will be in the charge of a. specially : appointed astronomer Conclusion is thus brought to a controversy re- ; raiding what should be done with ■cter £2OOO bequeathed 40 years ago iby the late Mr C. R. Carter for the founding of an observatory in or near I Wellington, a sum which has since .grown through investment to over I C 12,000.