DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1920, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

COUNTRY JOURNALISTS' TERMS. ; By Telegrnph.- -I'ross Association. I Wellington, Nov. 2. i A. full scttlpinc!!". has been arrived' »t betweeh the Wellington country journalists and the employers in the; conciliation council, the chief provisions . being: Wages seniors £(i iOs per week ; and a bonus of 10s per week; generals | £5 10s per week; juniors £4 for the j first vear and £."> thereafter; cadets. £1 15s for the lirst year, £2 15s fori the second year, £3 10s for the third; year; casuals 12s lid a half-day and; £1 a day; readers (not included in the i term "journalist"), £4 for the first year \ and £4 10s thereafter, with 10 per ; cent, extra for night work. i The "rading is: One journalist, one! n.eneral; two journalists, one senior, j one general; three journalists, one of j tack;" four journalists, one senior, two : generals and a junior; five journalists, j two seniors, two generals, one junior; j cadets, one to every three or fraction j of three journalist-. Sub-editors are . included in these grades. Two weeks j holiday on full pay are granted an- ( dually. .Preference of promotion is j given to juirralists who have passed j the matriculation or an equivalent ex-1 amination, and a test set by the mi-1 ion in accurate, reporting, paragraph! writing and interviewing. The agree- I ment comes into force on November la j for two years. THE GAMING COMMISSION. J

Wellington, Nov. 2.

The Minister of Internal Affairs announces that the following have been appointed a commission under the Gamin"- Amendment Act, to make recommendations to the Government as to the number and '.distribution of totalisator permits to be issued next season: -Mr F. Earl, K.C., of' Auckland (to be chairman); Messrs. W. E. Bidwell, farmer, of Foatherstnn; W. H. S. Moorhou=e, solicitor, of Wellington; J. H. Williams, solicitor, of Christchurch; Major S. Rice, auctioneer, of Wyndliam The order of reference is now being fixed for the holding of the first niceting.

RIGHT TO TOTALTSATOR FRACTIONS. Wellington, Nov. 2. Mr Skerrett, chairman of the board of control of the Sports Protection League has addressed a letter to the Won C. .T. Anderson (Minister of In(crnkl Affairs), statins that: "Notwnti--tandiiip the convincing reasons already L-iven whv the present method of handJin* totalisator fractions should not l!e"disturbed, the inspector of totalisa-i.-rs reports that not one sound argument has been adduced why clubs .honld be allowed to retain these fractions." Mr. Skerrett objects to the publication of such recommendations, and calls on the Minister to stop it. He proceeds to contend that the fractions belong to the people who put the roonev on the totalisator. and go back to them per medium of the clubs, who ,„ e tUcm for implements and addition, to stakes. He denies that the clubs retain the tractions at all. 'Already nearly half-a-million is d&wn by the' Government from racing, and it is now proposed to take, a further £42,000. He concludes bv objecting most stronger to "the extraordinary statements of v,»* totalisatir hispoctor. It appears t 0 us Miat it is no part of his duties to mike recommendations relating to matters of pojicy of which he can have Hale knowW a » d with wludl JIC has no concern."