ARBITRATION COURT VACANCY.
MR, HUNTER’S CANDIDATURE. .IMPRISONMENT NO DISQUALIFICATION. CHRISTCHURCH. March 5. The candidature of Hiram P. Hunter for the workers’ member of „ the Arbitration Court is regarded by many Labor men as almost certain to be successful. , Replying to criticism Mr. Hunter says' that he Avas sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on a charge of alleged breach of Avar regulations. However, it Avas a political offence and not a crime, and the Act disqualifies from holding a position on the Court only persons aaLo have committed crimes for Avhich the punishment is imprisonment with hard labor for six months or upivards.—P.A. NOMINATIONS CLOSED, PROBABLE LABOR SELECTION.
WELLINGTON. March 7The recommendations of industrial unions of workers and employers in respect to the representation of their re* spective interests on the Court of Arbitration close to-day. For the position of employers’ representative. Mr. W Scott, of Dunedin, has again been nominated, with Mr. B. L. Hammond, assistant secretary of the Neiv Zealand Employers’ Federation, as acting nominated' member renresentihg the employers on the Court. So far as the Avorkers are concerned, quite a number of nominations Avere received, both for the position of Avorkers’ assessor, and deputy-assessor, but it is generally considered that for the more important office of the two., the main contest lies between Mr. Hiram Hunter (Christchurch), Avho has received the imprimatur of the Alliance of Labor, and Mr. T. Bloodworth (Auckland). Mr. M. J. Reardon, who is at present the workers* representative on the Court, is not reckoned to have a likelihood of heating either Mr. Hunter or Mr. Bloodworth. HoAvever, the position Avill b& known possibly in the course of a ferv days, because the officials of the Department of Labor Anil now proceed to allocate to each candidate nominated the number of votes to which he is entitled according to the recommendation of the various unions. No matter how large it is no union is allowed to have more than three votes, the minimum being one vote for evexy fifty niemhers.—Press Assn.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 9635, 6 March 1923, Page 5
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