ARBITRATION COURT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 12 July 1923, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

'-4 _ SHEARERS' AWARD. I - , j (BY TELEGRAPTT PBKSP ASSOCIATION ) 1 BLENHEIM, July 11.' At the Arbitration Court sitting hero to consider an application by the Marlborough Shearers' and Shed Hands' Union for an award concerning rates of pay, hours, etc., for shearers m the coining season, after hearing evidence, His Honor said that as it had been agreed in Wellington that no local award should be* decided on till the Court had gone as far as Christchurch and Otago, the question could then, be decided whether the parties would be prepared to take a local award or a Bominion award. A further opportunity would be given to discuss the award then. Meantime the Court would not deal with the shearing dispute in the Auckland district.