Now some of the Dunedin firms have large branches in Wellington, They have factories there also, but they are small compared with those which they have in Dunedin. Now when the Wellington managers repeatedly re ported that they could purchase lines from Auckland at a cheaper rate than ther head office was charging them, the end of the tether was reached. When -the y matter was submitted to the Tailoresses* Union the latter took a ridiculous course to prove that the manufacturers were wrong. They set afoot inquiries and triumphantly pointed out that no Auckland goods had got a hold in the south. No one not blinded would, for a moment, entertain such an idea. Southern manufacturers where supplying out- had reduced the price to keep out the Auckland manufacture. But it will be at once seen that manu facturing at a loss cannot be carried on definitely. When,'therefore, the Auck land Union agreed to a log lower than that of the south, while the Southern Union asked for an advance, an im possible situation was created. Hence the reference to. the Conciliation Board, southern manufacturers are willing to pay any price short of what will lead to outside importation, but the price must be for the whole colony. The case was therefore adjourned in the hope that Parliament will enact that when an award is made in favor of a majority of a particular trade that award will apply to the whole colony. The seamen's dispute in Wellington seems to suggest another direction in which the act requires to be amended. The Wellington Seamen's Union has most of its members on steamers which Bail out of Wellington. The Union Co has its headquarters in Dunedin, and most of its men belong to the Federated Seamen's Union, with headquarters at Dunedin, a union by the way which refuses to recognise the Wellington ""'Union. And yet when the Wellington Union makes a demand the Union Co. has to take its books and its principal officers to Wellington to defend the case. If the Wellington Union gets an advantage the Federated Union will step in and share it, but if worse terms than at present were allowed the Federated Union would not accept, but promote a dispute of its own. 