ARBITRATION COURT.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 70, 6 March 1923, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

NOMINATION OF ASSESSORS. Wellington, March 6. Th© re com mon d&t ion b of industrial unions of Workers and employers in respect to the representation of their respective interests on the Court of Arbitration closed 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 New Zealand Employers’ Federation, as acting nominated member.

So far as the workers are concerned, quite a number of nominations were received, both for the position of workers’ 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), who has received the imprimatur of the Alliance of Labour, and Mr. T. Bloodworth (Auckland). Mr. M. J. Reardon, who it at present the workers’ representative of the Court, is not reckoned to have a likelihood of beating either Mr. Hunter or Mr. Woodworth. However, the position will be known possibly in the course of a few d&ys. because the officials of the Labour Department will noW proceed to allocate to each candidate nominated the number of votes to which he is entitled according to the recommendations. No matter how large it is no union is allowed to have more than three votes, the ininumum being one vote for every fifty members.