DOMINION NEWS.

Grey River Argus, 4 December 1943, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

DIVING ACCIDENT. PROVES FATAL. > TIMARU, Dec. 3. Charles Langrell, aged 14, who was admitted to the Timaru Public Hospital on Wednesday evening with a dislocated neck, died early yesterday morning. On Wednesday afternoon he was swimming at the Temuka baths and, when diving from the springboard, struck another boy who was swimming undei- the water He was a son of Mr. George Langrell, of Clandeboye.

ARBITRATION COURT’S POWERS.

WELLINGTON, Dec. 2.’ Th,e restriction imposed on both conciliation councils and the Court of Arbitration by the Wages Emergency Stabilisation Regulations, 1942 in the settlement of industrial disputes was referred to in the Court to-day; by Mr. Justice Tyndall, who s»id that power was limited to varying minor conditions or adjusting anomalies. Because of the large number of clauses on which agreement had not been reached in the Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough, Canterbury, and Southland front of house employees’ dispute, the Court referred the dispute back to the Conciliation Council. His Honour said that unless anomalies existed on wages and principal conditions the Court was completely prohibited from making any variation. Even although anomalies mignt exist, and everyone concerned might agree that they,, existed, nevertheless the Court must still be satisfied that having regard to tne object of the stabilisation regulations, the anoma. lies should be adjusted. In other words, it was not sufficient to say that ah anomaly existed. The Court still had to be satisfied that tne anomaly should be adjusted, having regard to the main object of the stabilisation regulations.