LATE TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8299, 1 June 1907, Page 8

LATE TELEGRAPHIC.

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, This Day. The p.oint i raised in the Arbitration Court yesterday regarding the duty of employers where a dispute has been before the Conciliation Board and its recommendations are acceptable to tho union seeking for an award, was further referred to by the President of the Court. He considered that where both sides have been represented before tho Board and the Board, after full investigation, iias made a recommendation, that recommendation ought, the Court thinks, to be treated us. prima facie, a fair and reason able settlement of the industrial dispute. The Court has jurisdiction to make an award after having the points in the dispute discussed by the parties without hearing any evidence at all, and although a recommendation has strictly no legal effect after a dispute has been referred to the Court, there is nothing to prevent the Court from calling on tho party who has referred a dispute to the Court to show cause why the recommendation of the Board should not be adopted as the basis of an award. If such party cannot adduce any valid reason for disregarding the recommendation, the Court, without calling on the other side, may make an award on the basis of the recommendation. In cases where neither side is satisfied with the recommendation of the Board, then tho party who brought the dispute before tho Board would have to begin at the hearing before tho Arbitration Court, but even in such case it may be convenient to tako the recommendation as a starting point, The Court also took the opportunity of saying that,, in cases where there is an existing award or industrial agreement which it is desired to have modified, tho union in framing its demands should take tho award or agreement as its starting point and show exactly in what respects it is desired to have the same modified. WELLINGTON, June 1. The Agricultural Department has satisfied itself that the hides sent from New Zealand, from'which it is alleged a man in Melbourne has contracted anthrax, were not from animate suffering from that disease. skins of cattle attacked by anthrax have never been sent out of New Zealand. NEW PLYMOUTH, June 1. The Customs revenue for May was £3071, as compared with £2056 last year. The butter exported was 14,227 boxes, as against 7,005 boxes last year. The cheese, 1528 crates, as against 586. GItEYMOUTH, June 1. The third week's results of the New Zealand Poultry Journal's duck egg competition are:—Woodward 22, Knight 21, Scott and Wareham 18, Cuff 12, Dowthwaite 11. All these pens are Indian runner. The best to date is Knight 54, Scott and Wareham 37, Woodward 32.