DECISION RESERVED ON QUESTION OF BATTENING OF ROOFS
(P.A.) AUCKLAND. June 14. The Arbitration Court today reserved its decision on an application by the Labour Department for an interpretation as to whether the battening of roofs was the work of roof tilers or carpenters. The matter came to a head as a side issue in the recent carpenters’ dispute. Mr. A. G. Hendry, president of the Tilers’ Union, said that in the recent dispute the Carpenters’ Union —the body since deregistered—claimed that battening was their work and tilers decided not to fix battens on the jobs in dispute. On March 17 all tilers in the Auckland province were dismissed.
La|er the Department of Labour offered to seek an interpretation and the union reached an agreement with the employers for battening to be written into a new award.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22972, 15 June 1949, Page 3
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