RENT STATISTICS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1924, Page 8

RENT STATISTICS

ARBITRATION .COURT AND /

TRADES COUNCrL

With reference to the request ef the Wellington Trades and Labour Council to the Arbitration Cpurt as to certain informatipn relating to rent statistics, the Ceurt has fpi-Warded the fpllpwing memerandum tp the secretary ef the council, Mr. \y. Bromley, drawing attention again tp-the fact that an erigwal letter ef the ccuncil, cpntaining a retlectien pn the Court, has not yet been withdrawn .•—Memorandum for Mr. W. -Bromley, secretary Wellingten Trades and Labeur Council, Trades Hall,—l have yeur letter ef tp-day's date, and am instructed by his Hcnpur Mr. Justice" Frazer tp say in reply that he regrets he. is unable te accept the view taken by ypur ccuncil. Ycur letter ef 14th instant contained matter that was improper and Offensive, and you were infprmed that'the Court could not receive a-letter containing matter of that nature, but that.. if the offending letter were withdrawn and a simple request fpr informatipn substituted, the Ceurt would censider the request. Ypu replied pn 24th • instant, explaining that yeu did not intend your former letter to be improper er pffensive, but ypu did not withdraw that letter. Your explanation was accepted, but it was pointed out to ypu that ypu apparently had net yet realised that it was neither permissible nor proper to embpdy the matter in questieh in a letter to the Court, quite apart from any deliberate intention to be offensive; and yeu were again infprmed that on your original letter being withdrawn, the Ceurt wpuld cpnsider yeur request for information. . The offending letter still stands, and is improper and cbjectionable in itself, no matter what the mctives of the writer Lwere. For that reason, the Court cannot cpnsider the letter. I am instructed by his Hpnpur tp say, in conclusicn, that he knews pf np reaspn why the Ceurt shpuld npt give any information that might reasonably be considered te be ef value, but that he must-insist en any request fer infprffiatipn being made in a proper manner. As already intimated in my twe fprmer ccmmunicaticns, if you fprmally. withdraw the letter to which exceptien has been taken, and substitute a simple request for ' the information asked for therein, the Court .will cpnsider it at 'an -early date. Unless yeu act in acccrdance with this intimation, I regret that I cannet held any further ccmmunicatien with ypu pn the subject.—J. A. Gilmeur, Registrar. 'Regarding the above matter, in a [statement tp "The Pest, "Mr. Bromley i says that ewing to circumstances over' which he had no ccntrpl he could not reply 'tp Mr. Gilmeur; nor ceuld he ccmply with the Cpurt's request that the original letter should, be withdrawn, The matter will be further discussed by the Trades and Labeur Council at its meeting next week.