ARBITRATION COURT.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 270, 20 May 1907, Page 3

ARBITRATION COURT.

I [By Telegraph.] (Our Own Correspondent.) Wellington, May 20. At the Arbitration Court this morning, Mr Pirani applied to the Court to fix a date for the hearing of the three disputes affecting printing offices, and that the city and country should be separated, the Court sitting at Palmerston, Wanganui, Masterton, and Napier for country disputes. The Court decided to take the city disputes on Wednesday week, and the country disputes later on. In reply to a request from Mr Pirani, the Court consented to the counterdemands of the employers being served on the Union to-morrow. A meeting of the Employers' Committee with Mr Pirani will be held here tonight to formulate the city demands. [PBB PBUGBB ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, May 20. A number of breaches of the award were dealt with by the Arbitration Court to-day. P. Hartshon, hotelkeeper, was charged with not paying an employee overtime, with employing a non-unionist, and three other breaches. In the first two fines of £1 and costs were inflicted, and in the other three cases £2 and costs. J. Jones, restaurant keeper, was fined a total sum of £6 for not paying overtime, for employing a nonunionist, and for working an em§loyee beyond the prescribed hours, amuel Gilmer, for failing to give a head waiter a half-holiday, was fined £2 and costs. E. J. Searl and Mrs Muncastaer, restaurant-keepers, were each fined £ land costs, and Mrs O'Shea, for seven breaches' of the Cooks' and Waiters' Award, was fined £4 and costs. E. Wilson, hotelkeeper, for failing to give an employee a half-holiday, was mulcted in a fine of £2 and costs. i