PAPERSPAST

COACH WORKERS AND WHEELWRIGHTS.

Mr. A. Rosser, for tho Union at tho Arbitration Court, stated that a settlement had been come to with tho exception of ono point. It had been agiced between the Employers' Federation and the Employees' Federation that ono dispute should be heard in a central position (Wellington), that assessors should represent tho different unions in their sectional disputes, and that whatever settlement was arrived at in Wellington should bo adopted without alteration in the other centres. Ho now/ asked whether the court could mako a dominion award, seeing that tho same parties wero represented throughout.

The President said in effect they could do so, but the court must follow the procedure laid do_wn by the Act, which made it almost impossiblo to mako v. Dominion avard.

On several employers objecting to being made parties to tho award, '.he question of adding parties was held over until tho nest sitting of the court.

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