AN UNUSUAL APPLICATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 82, 7 April 1913, Page 5

AN UNUSUAL APPLICATION.

MADE BT ffirasiClAHS' TTNZOri , . dismissed by arbitration: court., ■ ■ A most unusual application iras made at the Arbitration Court to-day, when Mr..J..R_ Morlev,-on-behalf of the Auckland "Performing iMusiciaiis' Union, a.pplied to have the Devoriport Ferry Company, the 'Waterside Workers' Union, St. Patrick's Day Committee, Auckland Timber Workers' Union.. Onehuhga. Municipal Band, Carnation Dancing Assembly. Union Steamship Company, Northern .Steamship Company. Hiiddard-Parkcr Company. Third Auckland Regimental ■Band, Rradney and Binns, Auckland Rup■by Union, and several other local bodies, -committees, and unions added a; parties to the union's award. 'Mr.Morley contended that, as the parties mentioned engaged bands or orchestras for picnics or other functions, they shouldpay the union rates. The Northern Steamship Cornpanj- and the Third Regimental Band were represented by Mr. Grosvenor, who opposed the application.' . Mr. W. Scott (employers' representative on the Arbitration Court) : It is the most extraordinary application I have seen 'before the Court. Mr. Justice Sim: It is a. most absurd application, and the_ Court has decided to dismiss it. The application was then struck ouW