ARBITRATION AWARD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 120, 19 April 1940, Page 2

ARBITRATION AWARD.

IMPORTANT RULING. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 19. Decisions by the Court of Arbitration to the effect that even slight employment on a weekly basis overrides all other considerations in other awards formed the basis of an Appeal Court case in which judgment was given to-day. Arthur Bruce Wilson, of Culverden, a clerk, had claimed from Dalgetv and Coy., Ltd., £ll3 4s 6d, representing the difference between his wage as a clerk froth July, 1938, to the end of 1939 and the wage he would have received under the Northern, Wellington, Westland, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland Retail Grocers’, Assistants’, and Drivers’ Award, dated August, 1938. When the ease was heard it was stated that the defendant company did y not eater or supply for the general "public apart from its own particular clients, and no invitation was held out to the public. Only a relatively small percentage of the retail business consisted of the supply of groceries to farmer clients. Plaintiff Wilson’s status while in the employ of the defendant company was regarded by himself and the company as that of clerk. Including his clerical work in connection with groceries, the percentage of the time spent by him in dealing with groceries in proportion to the whole of his duty would have been between two and three per cent of his working time. Judgments bv the Full Court to-day agreed that Wilson was pnt, entitled to succeed, ns he did not fall within the provisions of the above-mentioned award. Judgment, was entered f,or defendant company.