COURT ADJOURNS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 36, 11 August 1936, Page 11

COURT ADJOURNS

WORKERS' APPRECIATION

Before the special sitting of the Arbitration Court for consideration of applications for and against the 40-hour week was adjourned today, Mr. J. Read, president of the Trades and Labour Council, and Mr. L. Glover, president of the Alliance of Labour, expressed the appreciation of the workers for the way in which their claims had been considered by the Court.

Mr. Read said the workers appreciated the fact that the Court had been set a tremendous task; probably the greatest the Court had ever had. The work had been conduced in an exemplary manner, and the members of the Court had worked long hours to attend to all the cases. ■ The Labour movement appreciated the way the members of the Court had worked to dispose of the cases in the limited time available.

Mr. Glover said that he wished to endorse Mr. Read's remarks.

His Honour Mr. Justice Page thanked the speakers for their appreciative remarks, and said' that the Court was indebted to the advocates on both sides for the-way in which they had presented their 'cases. Many of the advocates had had ito prepare cases day after day, but they had done their work in such a way that the labours of the Court had been made lighter because of the concise way the evidence had been presented. There were still a number of judgments to be presented, but the Court had worked to a schedule and hoped to get all the judgments out in a week or two; certainly before September 1.

The Court leaves for Auckland this evening and will make fixtures there tomorrow afternoon.

One first offender for drunkenness was convicted and discharged by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today.