COST OF LIVING BONUS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1922, Page 5

COST OF LIVING BONUS.

. I APPLICATION FOR EXEMPTION DISCUSSED BY ARBITRATION J COURT. The Arbitration Court this morning discussed the procedure that was to be adopted by unions in connection with I applications fur exemption from any j order made by the Court for the reducI tion of wages. I Mr. T. Bloodworth said that the procedure ivas set out in the Act. but he understood some question had been raised as to the necessity for taking a, I ballot. He had been informed that Mr, I Justice Stringer had held that there was jno necessity to take a ballot, i Mr. Bcott, the employers' representaI tive, said that the judgment was an oral one to meet a ease of necessity. Mr. S. E. Wright, secretary of the ! Auckland Employers' Association, said that be would not object to the ballot being dispensed with if the case was roa- | sonable. The object, of the ballot was to i prevent unreasonable applications. I His Honor Raid that the best course 1 would be tor the Court not to lay down [ any general rule. If no objection was I taken by Mr. AVTight in what appeared 'to he a reasonable case then the Court [ might be able to deal with the matter. It was said that in tiie event of a bal* i lot being insisted upon it would take a : week for the notice to be sent out and I returned by members of a union. 1 His Honor said that the best answer he could give regarding exemptions was that it would be unsafe for the Court to make a general order against a mattez* which Parliament had deemed .necessary. If Mr. Wright objected there was the laWj and it could not be departed from. ; PRONOUNCEMENT SHORTLY. Hia Honor. Mr. Justice Frazer, stated st the Arbitration Court this morning that the court would make its pronouncement regarding the cost of living i bonus on or before Monday next. 1 Mr. Wright said that if the cases J were brought to him he would go into i them and lie would not oppose reason- | able application?. His Honor: That is a very fair way, I It is the only way we can pet around toe ] instruction of the statutec I