MR JUSTICE TYNDALL

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27150, 21 September 1953, Page 8

MR JUSTICE TYNDALL

RETURN AFTER YEAR ABROAD MISSION TO PAKISTAN FOR I-L.O. (New Zealand Press Association* AUCKLAND, September 20. Mr Justice Tyndall, Judge of’ the Arbitration Court, returned to Auckland by B.C.P.A. airliner this evening, after a year’s sabbatical leave. He will travel to Wellington on tomorrow ffight’s Limited express, and will return to the Bench on Wednesday to hear the application of the New Zealand Federation of Labour for a new general wage order. His Honour, who has 13 years experience in the settlement of industrial disputes, was one of five experts appointed by the International Labour Organisation to investigate industrial conditions in Pakistan The experts, who included two Englishmen, a Norwegian woman, and a Pakistani, have submitted a report to the 1.L.0., and their recommendations will be passed on to assist the Pakistan Government in making legislative and administrative reforms. In an interview, this evening, his Honour described it as an arduous but extremely interesting assignment. Pakistan, he said, had serious problems to face. These stemmed .from overpopulation. under-employment, and a shortage of agricultural land. It was trying bravely to solve its problems. In Karachi, his Honour and Mrs Tyndall were the guests of Mr Avra Warren, a former United States Minister in New Zealand, at the American Embassy. American Lecture Tour From Pakistan, Mr Justice Tyndall went to Paris, Britain and the United States. For two months he lectured on industrial matters at such famous universities as Harvard, McGill, and Princeton under the auspices of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He returned to Europe and visited Stockholm to view at first hand Swedish industrial relations and housing schemes. In Madrid, he saw his first

1 bullfight—“a unique experience, which 1 I am not particularly desirous to re- ■ peat.” Illness overtook Mr Justice Tyndall , in Spain and Sweden. He was sus- : pected of having contracted amoebic 1 dysentery, and on returning to the : United States, he consulted the Lahey , Clinic at Boston. He spent three , weeks under observation in the New : England Hospital, Boston, where the , British Foreign Secretary (Mr R. A. \ Eden) underwent an operation. j His Honour, who lost two stone in j weight while abroad, said he was “feel- ’ ing a lot better.” His indisposition j had delayed his return to New Zea--5 land, as the doctoys in Boston had aat vised him hot to undertake the Pacific flight for a month after his discharge • from hospital. He understood that this - had led to controversy over the need ■ for a retroactive decision in the pend- , ing wage case. 1 His Honour said he had not added J up the number of miles he had travels led, but the flight from Nandi to J Auckland had been the sixty-second i hop he had made by air. He paid a tribute to the efficiency of air travel