ARBITRATION COURT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 176, 27 July 1907, Page 7

ARBITRATION COURT.

THE SLAUGHTERMEN'S STRIKE

CASES POSTPONED

FIVE SHEARERS FINED

[press association.]

TIMARU, July 25

At the Arbitration Court here today about 90 employees of the Smithfield and Pareora freezing-wroks were to have been dealt with for striking in February last, but when the cases were called on Mr Raymond, who appeared for the defendants, said that they had n°t been properly cited. Mr White, for the Department, ad mntea that this was so, an error hay mg been made through the Clerk c" Awards at Christchurch having to appoint a substitute during Ms illness. This being so the cases could not'lr heard this sittings, and a snecial sil tings is to be held to hear them nsx' month.

For a breach of the CanterburShearers' award, five fhearcrs wer. fined £2 each and costs for refusing tc shear after the majority of the shearers they were working with had decided by vote that the sheep were in a fit condition to shear.