ARBITRATION COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 28, 3 February 1937, Page 12

ARBITRATION COURT

SITTING RESUMED

WELLINGTON FIXTURES

The Arbitration Court resumed its sitting in Wellington today after the holiday period. His Honour Mr. Justice Page presided, and with him were Mr. W. Cecil Prime (employers' assessor) and Mr. A. L. Monteith (employees' assessor). The session will continue until February 17, when the Court will leave for Dunedin, where it is to commence sitting on February 19. In addition to industrial disputes, the Court is to hear a number of compensation claims, the fixtures for Wellington being:— Tomorrow.—Vallance ,v. New Zealand Shipping Company; Carpenter v. Wellington Harbour Board. Friday, sth.—Ashenden v. Wellington Harbour Board; Reidy v. Wellington Harbour Board. Monday, Bth. —Wicks v. Gannaway and Co.; Bartley v. Fletcher. Construction Co.; Beverland v. Shaw, Savill, and Albion Co. Tuesday, 9th.—Maddock v. Wellington City Corporation; Newman v. New Zealand Shipping Co. Wednesday, 10th. —Domney v. W. Cook and Sons; journalists' dispute. Tuesday, 16th. —Application for an interpretation of the furniture trades apprenticeship order. Wednesday, 17th.—McCormick v. General Motors, Ltd. ORDER GRANTED. An application Tor an order concerning wages for workers in the biscuit-manufacturing trade in Wellington was made this morning by Mr. F. P. Walsh, on behalf of the union. He said that from 1929 to 1931 an award covered the Northern, Canterbury, and Otago-Southland districts; there were no parties to the award in Wellington city. A union had since been formed in Wellington, and a Dominion award had also been made, dated September 1, 1936. The application was that the rates set out in that award should be amended so as to provide the same rates in Wellington as would have been fixed by the Court prior to the general order made in May, 193 i. Manufacturers in districts other than Wellington were paying these rates. The order asked for by the union was made. On the application of the Timber Workers' Union, for which Mr. J. Read appeared, the Wellington Harbour Board was joined as a party to the timber workers' award, with the qualification that it could substitute its own holidays. COACHBUILDERS' AWARD. The Court granted an award in the Wellington-Canterbury coach and motor-body builders' dispute for a period of six months as from February 1. The award provides for the 40-hour week and the 1931 rates of wages, except for helpers in assembly plants, who arc to receive 2s 4.Jd an hour, and helpers in other factories, who are to get 2s 3|d an hour. Apprentices who have completed their apprenticeship may be employed as improvers for not more than twelve months at 2s 3d an hour. (Proceeding.).