ARBITRATION COURT.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 288, 24 November 1911, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

Dunedin. Nov. 23. The Arbitration (’ottrt bus given an award it; the Dunedin performing musicians’ dispute. Each performer is to rccf-ive at least i’3 per week of six nights, one matim-e and two rehearsals not exceeding two hours each, all time bey...nd two Imtir.s for any rehearsal and all extra rehearsals to be paid for at the rate ->f 2 »J per hour : casual performers 12 each performance : where more than one matinee i - given itt a week 1 - extra for each is to be paid after the first. Prr-fi-reni-e to unionists is provided far. The award comes into force on November 27th, and continues 1 r two years. In the case of Stubbs v. the Ne v Zealand Coal and Oil CempanN. ; n which the plaintiff claimed compen sation for injuries sustained bi the company’s mine, the plaintiff claimed that disease of osteoarthritis in the knee from which lie suffered, was aggravated by a fall of coal. Judgment was given for the defendants. In the case in which the pare ns of James Campbell, who was fatal y injured in the YVestport Coal Com pany’s mine last March. claimed compensation from the company, the court held that the plaintiffs were partial defendants, and awarded them £69 with costs. Witnesses’ expenses were not allowed.