ARBITRATION COURT

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22110, 4 June 1937, Page 17

ARBITRATION COURT

CHRISTCHURCH SESSION CASES SET DOWN FOR HEARING Cases were set down for hearing in Chrislchurch at a sitting yesterday of the Arbitration Court in the old Provincial Council Chamber. The first case will be heard on Monday next, June 7, and the fixtures set down yesterday will occupy the Court until July 7. The Court will afterwards sit m Ivmaro. to hear compensation cases, but the dates ol the session in Timaru, and of the resumption of the 'session in Christchurch, are yet to be decided. Mr Justice O'Regan presided, and with him were Messi-s W. Cecil Prime (employers? representative) and A. L. Monteith (employees' representative). The following fixtures were made:— Monday, June 7—Canterbury and Otago coal mines workers' disputes. Tuesday, June 8-—Judson v. Williamson (compensation). Thursday, June 10—Canterbury nurserymen and landscape gardeners' dispute. Friday, June 11—Canterbury glove workers' dispute. Monday, June 14—New Zealand waterside workers' dispute and interpretation of Canterbury musterers', packers', and drovers' award. Tuesday, June 15—Interpretation of cases stated by freezing workers' disputes committee. Wednesday, June 16—Flourmills employees' award. Thursday, June 17—Smith v. Selwyn Plantation Board (compensation). Friday, June 18 —Canterbury smokeless fuel workers' dispute. Cases affecting the following will be called so that fixtures may be made:—Fur workers, laundry, dyers, and cleaners, 1 pottery and clay workers, Westland engineers, northern, Wellington Canterbury, Otago, and Southland wire workers; as well as applications for extension of hours under Factories Act by Morrison and Morrison, and Restar (South Island) Proprietary, Ltd.; applications to add parties to the New Zealand painters' and decorators' award, the New Zealand furniture trade award, and the New Zealand motor and horse drivers' award, and an application for exemption from the caretakers' award. Monday, June 21—Ellesmere Land Drainage Board employees' dispute. Tuesday, June 22—Taranaki musicians' and Taranaki electricians' disputes. Wednesday, June 23—District Registrar of Apprentices v. McCree and Son, and an appeal by E. Batstone against the decision of the motor mechanics' apprenticeship committee. , Thursday, June 24—Canterbury hair- | dressers' and tobacconists' dispute, and applications to add parties to the soft goods warehousemen's award and the New Zealand storemen's and packers' awards. Friday, June 25—Canterbury saddlers' dispute. • Monday, June 28—Canterbury engineering draughtsmen's dispute. Tuesday, June i . —Canterbury, Westland, and Nelson electrical workers' dispute. Wednesday, June 30—Miscellaneous engineering applications. " Thursday, July I—North Canterbury timber and coal yards employees' dispute. Friday, July 2—Applications for amendments of Canterbury brewers' j and brewers' drivers' awards. | Monday, July 5, and Tuesday. July 6—Canterbury (excluding Christchurch) and Marlborough picture projectionists' dispute.