COMPLAINT BY MR WALSH

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28937, 3 July 1959, Page 10

COMPLAINT BY MR WALSH

Time Taken By Employers

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 2. The workers’ advocate in the Arbitration Court (Mr F, p. Walsh) today charged the employers’ representatives with wanting to keep the hearing of the application for a general wage order “going till Christmas.” They had put their heads together to see how long they could drag the proceedings on, he said Mr Walsh made his allegations when the employers' representative (Mr P. J. Luxford) called the third witness of the day to give evidence against the application. Mr Luxford indicated that the hearing of evidence by witnesses called by the employers’ representatives would continue into next week.

Mr Luxford denied that the employers’ representatives were trying to drag out the proceedings.

“Mr Walsh challenged us on occasions to produce evidence in support of our submissions.” he said. “We are doing so. It seems he doesn’t like it” Mr Justice Tyndall pointed out mi “utes earlier Mr Walsh himself had asked for an adjournment of the Court Mr Walsh: Yes, but that was whether the witness (Mr R. E. Dawson, secretary of the New Zealand Harbours AssociaUon) had the authority of harbour boards to appear and give evidence.