At a meeting of the Unemployed Relief Committee at Christ church yesterday it was decided to take active steps to raise sub scriptions and pay the money by Saturday in to the Charitable Aid Board so as to obtain the Government subsidy. The Conciliation Board resumed consider ation at Christchurch yesterday of the difficulty in the boot trade. The hearing of evidence and addresses had not been con cluded when the Board adjourned till to-day. Owing to the recent painful case in Christ church, in which a young girl employed at a boot factory, who wore her hair loose, was scalped by moving machinery, the Factory Department have issued a circular to factory owners setting forth that girls and women employed in their factories must have their hair so fastened up whilst at work that there will be no possibility of such an accident again occurring. The circular adds : "It can, of course, be left to the discretion of the girls or women whether the hair be worn loose or in hanging plaits when outside the work room."

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