ARBITRATION COURT.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12282, 28 August 1905, Page 9

ARBITRATION COURT.

(ttLtSS. ASSOCIATION TIXEGftAM.) . DUNEDIN. August 26. In the case of the Sauroakere* Union the Arbitration Court delivered judgment. . Respondent w*s" charged- '..with, failing to pay overtime rates to certain men, and paying lew than the award rate without a permit. On the 22nd insfc. the Court intimated no penalties would bo inflicted, reserving its .de.oision on questions of lew. It now held fbo Legislature could not* have deliberately intended the parties should be left bound by an award the period of which had. expired, and which, perhaps, had become unsuitable, but which they were unable to get rid of because the union could not be cited, and, the President said, there being no process to enable tne aggrieved" party to challenge tlhe existence of the union ■ said to be defunct, tfoa Teanedy for '*hi» was exclusively in the hande of the Registrar. When the facts were fully before, the Registrar, ho would not fail to investigate, and would do justice accordingly, and subject to the legal question now dealt with. The breach -was admitted in each case. The Court simply recorded a breach in each oaSe but inflicted no penalty.