OBITUARY.

Mataura Ensign, 23 April 1913, Page 5

OBITUARY.

e LORD GORELL. BY HLECTIUC TELKGi! Al'll. —COPYRIGHT. PIE UNITED PEES 3 ASSOCIATION. LONDON, April 22. Received April 23, 9.45 a.m. The death is announced of Right Hon. Sir John Gorell Barnes, First Baron Gorell of Brampton (created ! 1009), P.C.; a get I 68 years. | ■ j Lord Genii was a judge of the Proj bate. Divorce and Admiralty Division of |the High Court of Justice from 1892 to ! 1905 and was president from 1905 to i9°B. j Relative to the deceased the following appreciation will be of interest : ' liord Gorell, ex-President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division, the arbitrator in' labor difficulties whom both sides trust, sits again to-day to interpret his own award as to hours and wages of the Groat Eastern railw.ayj men. Matters mainly technical have I arisen as to tho effect of the award, 'and j both the company and tho men are conI, tent that Lord Gorell should give his ;own reading. Lord Gorell, as arbitrator, is regarded with such trust and conI fidence by both parties because, before issuing his award in the first place, he j went and saw for himself. To know 'the conditions in which engine-drivers i work, Lord Gorell took a journey upon ! the footplate, of ai] express engine. To | appreciate the stress of a signalman's duties he spent a day in one of the | largest signal -cabins on the line. To j ascertain what was required of shunters |ho visited several of the large goods | yards, and there, amid all the noise and bustle, saw the men at their work. That is why the raihvaymen call him "thorough" and place such confidence in him.