DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 June 1921, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

PROBATION FOR THEFT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wanganui, June 1. In the Supreme Court, George Beckett, for theft and false entries, was admitted to probation for two years. HARBOR BOARD’S JUBILEE. Auckland, Last Night. A luncheon to celebrate the Auckland Harbor Board’s fiftieth jubilee was held to-day, when speeches were made by various ex-ehairmen and the Hon. C. J. Parr. AUCKLAND’S UNEMPLOYED. Auckland, Last Night. The unemployment register at the Trades Hall contains over six hundred names. Many men are being sent to road work in the country districts. ELECTRIC LIGHT FOR HOKITIKA. Hokitika, Last Night. The streets of the town were electrically lit to-night for the first time by arrangement with the Borough Council and the Kanieri Electric Co., Ltd. Some hotels were also connected, and a number of business places are to follow as soon as the reticulation service is completed. The lighting of the streets was very effective. LABOR M.P.’s AND UNEMPLOYED. Christchurch, Last Night,.

In the course of their reply to Sir Francis Bell, the Christchurch Labor members, Messrs. Howard, Sullivan, and McCombs, say: “You have made no attempt to justify the Government’s action in putting forty experienced men off the public works on the Okatarawa Road, and within a few weeks engaging thirty more men for the same work at a reduced rate of pay. You have not tried to justify, or even explain, the Government’s action in paying men 10s a day, despite the fact that the Arbitration Court award rate is 16s a day and despite the important fact, too, that your Government is committed by an honorable agreement with the New Zealand Workers’ Union, signed by Mr. Holmes, the late Engineer-in-Chief, and endorsed by the present Engineer-in-Chief (Mr. Furkett), and also by the Minister in charge, to pay labourers on public W’orks rates ranging from Is 104 d to 2s 3d per hour.