Arbitration Court Tightens Scope On Labor Disputes
Our Sydney Letter reports the Arbitration Court will only hear disputes actual ly occurring between employers and employed and later taken up by unions. It criticizes union secretaries for creating nonserious disputes to expand power and notes the court aims to curb chronic litigation and restore stability. It also discusses church leadership recruiting ministers and the need for reform to attract capable men.
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Arbitration Court
High Court
Insufficient Salary Cited In Postmaster Embezzlement Case
Acting Judge Hamilton criticized the department for low pay after sentencing a Coraki postmaster to prison for embezzlement. He noted the postmaster’s stated salary was £210 yearly with £21 rent deduction, implying a link between pay and honesty. The remark sparked debate about departmental wages.
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Hamilton
Coraki
Lim
Terminol ogical inexactitude in public discourse
A British newspaper column critiques attitudes toward honesty and employment. It notes a jailed official’s reputation questioned by small salary, laments parents pushing children into genteel clerk or shopman roles, and urges public instruction reforms to encourage more valuable occupations.
Brevities From Far Lands and Local Gossip
A roundup of notes mentions Wellington mayoral allowance of £25 annually and asks if street mongrels are registered. Queensland cyclone damage noted, Wynne reelected, hospital secretary. Various local items include millinery displays, a poultry judge’s death, a sheep shipment, and plans to open Wellington common for settlement. A Brisbane schoolboy death, heat relief, a Sunday bar incident in Sydney, Lands Commission nearing completion, and a slander suit for £5000. Other tidbits cover tradesmen, a London cable on a circus, and a Sunyside Farmers plea to cut wire netting costs and open Crown land.
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Wellington
Queensland
W. B. Wynne
Pipe
Goulburn
Sydney
A. W. Taylor & Co
Corbett
Cumnock
Orange Hospital
Loombah
Molong
Seat Africa
Brisbane
Lands Commission
N.G.W
Taylor's
William Lyne
Parliament House
W. and
A. McArthur and Co
Carl von Heiden
Moaers
W. H. Paling &Co
von Heiden
New South Wales
London
Oxford
Peak Hill
Sunnyside
Farmers and Settlers’ Association
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F. Stephens
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