THE ARBITRATION COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 11684, 17 February 1902, Page 4

THE ARBITRATION COURT.

WELLINGTON, February 17,

The Arbitration Court award in the tinplate workers’ case fixes the hours of labor at forty-eight a week, and the minimum wage at Is lid per hour. All boys are to be indentured for five years. Preference to be given to unionists. In the furniture trade case the hours in Wellington are to be forty-six per week. The minimum wage for cabinetmakers, upholsterers, chair and frame ipakers, and machinists is £3 per week; for polishers and turners £2 15s. Apprentices are ro serve five years each, and be indentured Preference to be given to unionists. In the industrial district outside Wellington City forty-eight hours per week is fixed, with minimum wages of Is od an hour, and Is 2d per hour to classes given above. Pamirs’ and decorators’ hours, from September 1 to April 30, are to be eight to five on five days per week and eight to noon Saturdays; from May 1 to August 31, 8 a.m. to 4.30 on five days. AH boys to be indentured for five years, and preference to unionists. The rates of wages in tho city and suburbs of Wellington to be not less than Is 3d per hour, with an extra shilling a day and travelling expenses for work done beyond ten miles from an employer’s shop. Special rales are fixed fov places bey on g fifieen miles from Wellington. Minimum wages are Is 2d per hour, with special schedule for apprentices. The preference clause does not aprjly to the Wairarapa and Union Com pany, and local bodies are not to be affected by the award. NELSON, February 17. A sitting of the Arbitration Court was held to-day before Judge Cooper and Messrs Brown and Slater. The award of the Conciliation Board in reference to the. dispute between the Parapara Company and the Collingwood Miners’ Union was confirmed viz., fixing the wages at 8s 6d a day. No other business was transacted.