Award Cancelled.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 January 1942, Page 2

Award Cancelled.

Registration of the Auckland Abattoir Assistants’ and United Freezing Works Employees’ Union is formally cancelled, so far as the employees of the abattoir established and maintained by the Auckland City Council are concerned, by a notice gazetted last night. The Auckland City Council Abattoir Assistants’ Award is also cancelled. Penalties for Strikes and Lock-outs. An amendment to the Strike and Lockout Emex'gency Regulations gazetted last night provides for the following penalties for offences against the regulations: In the case of an individual, imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or a fine not exceeding £5O; in the case of a body corporate, a fine not exceeding £2OO. Vegetable Prices Easier. Some lines of vegetables, notably the new season’s onions, cabbage and carrots, are coming forward at Pukekohe in increased supply, resulting in an easing of prices. Onions have been reduced to £ll a ton, a decrease of £4 on last week. Carrots are down by 3s a sugar bag to 9s, and cabbage to 7s 6d a sugar bag, a drop of 2s 6d. Pickling onions are quoted at £l4 a ton; swedes 6s a sugar bag, and tomatoes 8s 6d a case. Bread Deliveries to Cease. House-to-house bread deliveries are to cease in the Hastings borough on Saturday ,and from thenceforward purchasers will be required to secure supplies from retail stores. While anxious to assist in,, what is regarded as a waxeconomy, retailers feel that the terms undex- which they will be required to purchase and resell bread are unfair. Under the new arrangement retailers will buy bread from a company, comprised of the bakers in the HastingsHavelock area at the rate of s)>d a loaf, and will sell at 3jd a half-loaf and 6d a loaf.

Appeal Dismissed. “I am not a conscientious objectoi’ in the common understanding.” said Lawrence Seddon Hambling, when he appeared before the No. 4/\ Armed Forces Appeal Board in Hastings yesterday. In support of his appeal on conscientious grounds, reservist, who is 18, stated that he was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. The appeal was dismissed, with the recommendation that he be called on to do non-combat-ant service only. “I am most anxious and desirous of serving my country, but as a Christian I do not believe it is right to beax- arms,” said reservist. “However, I am willing to serve in any noncombatant capacity.” “This is not the ordinary class of conscientious objector,” commented the Crown representative, Mi- Wauchop.

Housing and Defence. There was a wild rumour that the Government was going to stop building State houses because of the new regulations declaring certain industries essential, without reference being made to the building of houses, said the Minister in Charge of Housing, Mr Armstrong, when interviewed at Auckland yesterday. “Nothing could be further from the minds of the Government,” he said. “In Auckland and Wellington, particularly, we are going to build every house it is possible fox- us to build.” Mr Armstrong said that defence works had to take precedence but the Government intended to organise all available labour and equipment so that defence works could be done, and as soon as possible the vax-ious plants be released for housing work at the nearest points.