ARBITRATION COURT

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 19, 24 January 1929, Page 12

ARBITRATION COURT

EMPLOYERS' REPRESENTATIVE

(By TeloHraph.) (Special to "Tho Evenino Post.")

CHRISTCHUECH, This Day

Tho New Zealand Employers' Federation announce that its executive has considered the questiou of nominations for the position of employers' representative on the Court of Arbitration, and has decided unanimously to recommend the nomination of Mr. Louis John Schmitt, who is attached at present to tho Department of Industries and Commerco as advisory accountant. Special meetings of the unions of employers arc to be called to consider the executive's recommendation.

Mr. Schmitt was stationed in Olirisfjcliurch several years ago, and lvas in charge- of the office of the- Department of Industries and Commerce here. Other X)ositions ho has held in the Department or in connection, with it aro secretary of the Wellington Prico Investigation Tribunal (cost of living), investigating accountant to the Board of Trade, secretary to the Advisory Council in Now. Zealand for the Wembley Exhibition and Deputy-Government Commissioner for the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition at Dunedin. Mr. Sehmitt, who was born in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1885, has been in the Dominion eighteen years. He was born of British parents, his grandfather having been naturalised a British subject in Melbourno in 1854. During the past twenty-seven years Mr. Sehmitt has been associated with the following companies and departments of State: Victorian Railways, Messrs. Bewick, Moreing, and Co., Melbourne; Zinc Corporation, Ltd., Broken' Hill; Great Fitzroy Copper' Mines, Ltd., Queensland: Mouut Morgan Mines, Ltd., Queensland; The BUickwater Mines, Ltd., New Zealand; The Consolidated Gold fields of New Zealand, Ltd.; Nelson Education Board, and the New Zealand Department of Industries and Commerce.