GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 215, 20 December 1910, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

HOTEL EMPLOYEES' CONFERENCE. By Telegraph.-~Prefls Association. Wellington, Monday. New Zealand Federated Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Industrial Association is holding its first annual conference to-day. Delegates representing Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurchare present. The conference will consider tho executive's report, including the statement of work in "connection with the passage of the Shops and Offices Amendment Act, and securing recent awards in the hotel trade, instructions to members and country workers as to their position under the new Act, demands to be made and consideration of obtaining fresl* awards in the restaurant and private hotel trades in the four centres, the question of country organisations and insistence on the observance of the Act in country districts. Mr. Long (Auckland) was elected president of the conference, and Mr. Carey (Wellington) secretary. The most of the morning was devoted to revision of the rules and constitution of the federation, the afternoon to the consideration and framing of demands for a new restaurant award. COLLISION AT A WHARF. Wellington, Monday. The Union Company's Pateena, while lying at Picton wharf on Saturday afternoon,' was struck on the starboard quarter by the Kaiapoi Shipping Company's Kairaki, which struck the Pateena's bulwarks, ripped a hole 3ft. ' by 2ft., and damaged the wheel gratings. All the Pateena's after lines, whieh included a, steel hawser, were carried away. Two plates of the Kairaki's forecastle 'were dented. As the damages were well above the water line, both vessels were allowed to proceed to sea. A COMPENSATION CLAIM. \ Dunedin, Monday. The Arbitration Court this morning j gave judgment in the case Susan Ann G-eddes v. John Mill and Co., a compensation claim in respect of the death of Donald Geddes, who was killed by falling down the hold of the steamer Fifeshirc on May 12. The court held that the accident arose out of deceased's employment, and awarded £SOO. TO VINDICATE THE LAW. Auckland, Monday. The Auckland Harbor Board was charged at the Police Court with having constructed certain harbor works on reclamation land, and a reclamation wall in connection therewith, Without having obtained authority by Order-in-Council. The board admitted the offence. /The prosecution explained that the object was not to mulct the board in a large fine, but to vindicate the ,law. The maximum fine provided is £IOO, andthe board was fined £5 and costs. TAILORESSES' AWARD. Dunedin, Monday. The Arbitration Court delivered judgment in the case of Inspector of Awards v. Ross and Glendinning, an application for the enforcement of the tailoresses' award. The point in dispute was whether the award applies to pressers employed to press ladies' costumes. The court held that until the provisions of the schedule be brought into operation the provisions relating to pressers do not extend to pressing ladies' costumes. Judgment'was for defendants. The case was treated as one for interpretation. ,