VEXATIOUS PROSECUTIONS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 187, 2 May 1908, Page 5

VEXATIOUS PROSECUTIONS.

. AN ARBITRATION COURT MATTER; (BY TEI/EdIUrH—TBESS . ASSOCIATION-) ■ . " - AucXiand, May 1. : Occasion was taken by Mr. O. Grosvenor, secretary. of tho Auckland Employers' As J speiation,' ;thp Arbitratibfl,.Court;'to-day, to■ drW'_'att«^tioh l ta'^liQ. necessity' for' making; provision employers, when cited before' the Coyr't ..Without adcciuatp.'reason, may Yobtain' ; •' tho : -inspector. "Hero," said-Mr. Grosvenor, "wo havo a .ease" to .-irUich ,tU<s; IJriijn makes a'statement to, the Inspectors of Awards' alloging'that two men'l have slaughtered' caitip'on acertain date, when : it has ! 'begn'. proved 1 that, they wprp, not '.'slaughtering' at all, and also that they, wore not iii the slaughtering-house thai day: ' In -this' case, 1 the'respondent,, togethei with hi§ principal b,?en ivqiting for■ three■ days 'for the,' to como on, arid has no iheans of recovering any expenses! at all. In cases employers are charged with .committing offences, and wese-- $rp proved' against''tuem'jth'ey afp usually mulcted'in a fine" compelled !■ it pay witnesses' expenses. . Some alteration should bo made in f,he Act whereby in cases that aro absolutely 'frivolous tho employers 1 'do 'not' mean to rencc(; on the inspector, as .ho acts oil' information given him: by the Union; and this v wy qften . inaccupte.'i'' '' Brown: Tou .wjll have to got the Act altered. ' . • ' •'We ÜBcd vto allow costs until tho Act \v.ifj altered. • L " ii Tl lo provision was slipped intc . y. 1 .? yWfOi'WW. Act. The Legislature realh did not know what it was doing. '* " '' * ..'Miv Orosionbr.: Employers'. Federation during tho recent conferenco in Wolliiißton submitted tho niat(;er: to the Cabinet. ,H W. • present -'no iced has bceii taken of,it, ... •'