INDUSTRIAL LAW

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 50, 27 August 1938, Page 11

INDUSTRIAL LAW

NEW MAGISTRATE

SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS

Minor functions and powers of the Court of Arbitration are to be exercised by Mr. James Alexander Gilmour, whose appointment as a temporary Magistrate is announced in this week's Gazette. Mr. Gilmour is registrar of the Court of Arbitration, and associate to the President of that Court, Mr. Justice O'Regan. The Minister of Labour (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong), in an interview yesterday, said that legislation passed last year authorised the Court of Arbitration to issue an order delegating to a Stipendiary Magistrate any of its powers or functions under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act or under the Apprentices Act. Mr. Gilmour has been appointed specially for this class of work. "Mr. Gilmour is well equipped to undertake certain of the work of the Court of Arbitration, for he is one of the best-informed men on industrial .law in New Zealand," said Mr. Armstrong. "Of all the men with special qualifications for the appointment, Mr. Gilmour has had by fat the widest experience. He can give at a moment's notice a ruling on any point likely to crop up. Work will be delegated to Mr. Gilmour by both the Arbitration Courts. However, there may be some slight delay before he begins his new duties, because of the necessity for first finding a successor to the position of registrar and associate to the Judge." Before joining the Labour Department in 1917, Mr. Gilmour was in private practice as a solicitor. He was appointed registrar of the Court of Arbitration in August, 1922, and has held that position ever since. Former presidents of the Court of Arbitration with whom Mr. Gilmour has been associated were Sir Francis Frazer, now deputy chairman of the Executive Commission of Agriculture, and the late Mr. Justice Page.