ARBITRATION COURT.

Mataura Ensign, 16 March 1909, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

t I'HEFEKENCE TO li^lOMSlb ■ «<* k'ttt UNilli) i'Rfc&ft UluCiiTlOl. WELLLNtiTUN, Slant li Breaches ol award turn,'* wore beard ' i.*' i In; Arbitration Conn to-day. Martill llurrcll and Kwaddou were ciiilgisl •villi timing employed u uon-uuioiiut when unionists were disungagcd, in contravention oi tiic carpenters award. It aa> conicinied lor the deteuco thai tho iiiiin employed was an expert staircaM iiund and received more than union •vuges. Tho Court whs "not fbUhtHiJ that. o<|Uully competent unionists wero av*i>lOlc alld dismissed tile Case. 11l a euse against \V. J. Lailksbgar, printer, lor not paying lor a holiday jiiM'rved on tho Prince of Wales 1 birth* • lay, tlin question was whether that day •unio under the tyiHigraphical award, it not being specifically mentioned. The (.'ourt held respondents guilty ol a breach, but us u penalty was not pressed lor. no order was made. George J as. Ager was fined 10 lor "iiiploving non-unionists and one of the peisoim so employed was lined 10s, In an interpretation case tho Court : held that it was not necessary to C9>. ; plo.v either a compositor or an ■ lice to pull proofs. i The Court ordered, by agreement be-' I iween the parties concerned, limitation i ol liability lor six years in a coinpema- ' tion case in which Walter 0. Willim i hud been injured through falling from [ a structure used in tho erection of a ■ • building by Cathedral and Uurko. Tho I point was that the claimant bad cufferI I'd fracture ol tho skull and had been - incapacitated up to t|u: present. Ihv waH asked to define the period of I liability.