ARBITRATION COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 133, 2 December 1935, Page 13

ARBITRATION COURT

WELLINGTON SITTINGS

Fixtures for the hearing in Wellington of compensation cases and other business by the Court of Arbitration before the close of the year were made today by Mr. A. L. Monteith. Owing to indisposition, Mr. Justice Page -was absent, as was also the other member of the Court, Mr. W. Cecil Prims, owing to a family bereavement. Mr. Justice Page contracted a chill on his way from Auckland to Napier, and has been confined to bed in Napier. It will be some days before he will be able to resume work.

Fixtures were made by Mr. Monteith as from December 11 to December 23. Between now and December 11 the Court is to sit at Dunedin and Christchurch.

■ Thirteen compensation cases, to be heard between December 11 and December 21, were set down for hearing at Wellington. The rest of the sittings will be occupied with the hearing of industrial matters. There are applications asking the Court to ratify agreements reached in conciliation council and make them into awards; applications to join parties to awards and objections from employers being covered by certain awards, an application for the interpretation of the Typographers' Award, and an appeal case.

The first application for an award was in respect of the agreement reached in the fur workers' dispute. It was suggested that the currency of the new award in this trade be for twelve months from January 1 next. Others mentioned were the builders' and general labourers' agreement, the wool and grain stores' agreement, brewers' agreement, Wellington tailors' agreement, Wellington plumbers' dispute, and the Dominion storemen and packers' dispute.