APPEAL CASE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25306, 4 October 1947, Page 2

APPEAL CASE

REFERENCE BACK TO COURT OF ARBITRATION (P.A.) WELLINGTON. October 3. In March, the Appeal Court heard a case referred to it by the Court of Arbitration in which a woman worker, employed as a labeller by the International Paints of New Zealand, Ltd., was required to stamp words on paint tins, indicating the colour of the paint. In performing such duties she came under the Paint and Varnish Workers’ Award, but when it became necessary to substitute paper labels, because of war shortages, she was required to print the colour names on the labels with a small hand press.

It was contended that she was entitled to be paid for this work on the Printers’ Award rates. Mr Justice Tyndall said it was a case for the opinion of the Court of Appeal. To-day the Appeal Court delivered its judgment, in which members were all agreed, that the questions asked in the case could not be answered be cause they were of too general a nature and because the Court of Arbitration had not sufficiently decided the facts on which the questions depended. The case was sent back to the Coun of Arbitration with the questions unanswered.