DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3368, 7 November 1911, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

COMPENSATION AWARDED

(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Nov. 6

In the Arbitration Court to-day, the case of Snowdon v. Union Steamship Coy. was heard. The plaintiff was Harriet Snowdon whose husband was killed on one of the Company’s boats at Napier. The amount of tlie claim, £489 had been paid into Court, including £2O for special expenses, which, however, amounted to £29 15s, leaving £9 15s as a further claim. The Court ordered that £6O be paid to the widow immediately, the balance to be invested by the Public Trustee, tlie interest to be applied' for the benefit of the three defendants. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE. The Iron and Brass moulders’ dispute came before the Court to-day. The,Union asked for Is 4|d per hour for all work. The employers were willing to give Is per hour for all work except catalogue work, for which they offer Is 3d. The case was irnfinished when the Court rose, FOR REGULAR TRAINING. WELLINGTON, Nov. 6. Major T. W. McDonald, officer commanding tlie junior cadets leaves Wellington at the end of this month for England, where he will be attached for twelve months to the regular forces at Aldershot. During his absence Major McDonald’s duties will be carried on by Captain Stevens. A TREASURE HUNT. DUNEDIN. Nov. 6. It is reported that the small steamer Rakuiira has been chartered by the Sorenson-May syndicate to convey a salvaging party to Auckland Island to exploit tlie wreck of the General Grant, in search of gold believed to have been sunk there in l 1866. FIRE PREVENTION. TIMARU, Nov. 6. The Temuka Borough Council are preparing to instal a high pressure water supply by gravitation. They find they are required by law to fix fire plugs every hundred yards. The engineer had planned to 6ave the cost of seventy odd as they are quite unnecessary for many years,' but the Council are advised that they must provide 'Jthem for fear of liability and compensation for fire losses, where the plugs are further apart. The plugs therefore are to be put in. NOT A FOSTER PARENT. WELLINGTON, Nov. 6. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, before Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M., Doris Harris was fined 40s and costs for retaining an infant in her care for more than seven consecutive days without being licensed as a foster parent under “The Infants Act, 1908.”