PRESIDENT REPLIES TO MR. McCULLOUGH..

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 September 1921, Page 5

PRESIDENT REPLIES TO MR. McCULLOUGH..

WELLINGTON, Sep. 12. A statement in reply to the charges made by Mr McOuiiough (employees' 5 assessor on the Arbitration Court) upon his resignation from thatf/^jbGtfy has been prepared ior the Minister or Labour by the president of the Court, Mr Justice Frazer, with the concurrence of the employers' assessor (Mr W. Scofct). His Honor states emphatically that there was no breach of jfafty "gentlemen's agreement" arrivedv&t by^the three members of the Court. He refers to Mr McCullough's resignation as having arisen out of & misunderstanding. "The stabilisation pronouncement," His Honor says, "was intended to be as far as possible or general application and to remain unaltered unless the general financial and industrial situation became such as to render reconsideration necessary from a Dominion standpoint, but it was recosnised that circumstances might: justify the Court in treating certain applications as special cases. We desire to refute emphatically the suggestion that there was an agreement,, written or, unwritten, that members 01 the Court would prejudge^ any andt every application "tor nearly twelve months ahead, thereby reducing th 3 functions of the Court for that period' to the level of an empty