AWARD ANOMALIES
MUST BE LEFT IN MEANTIME 1931 RATES IF NO AGREEMENT [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, December 19. A suggested explanation for the dictum of Mr Justice Page that wages would not' be increased beyond the 1931 level, except in special circumstances, was given by Mr Reardon, tho Conciliation Commissioner, during the hearing of a dispute. Mr Reardon said that tho Arbitration Court had found itself “ snowed under ” with work, and had said that if the parties to the application for a new award could not agree in conciliation on wages, then the 1931 rates would be awarded. Hours, however, would be decided if no agreement could be reached. There might bo injustice in some cases and there were certainly some anomalies on account of the changed conditions since 1931, The court, nevertheless, took the view that it had no time to rectify anomalies, and aimed to catch up on its work with the assistance of the interested parties, leaving the consideration of what might be thought to be anomalies to some future* occasion.
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Evening Star, Issue 22526, 19 December 1936, Page 9
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175AWARD ANOMALIES Evening Star, Issue 22526, 19 December 1936, Page 9
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