ARBITRATION COURT.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2124, 16 May 1922, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

INTERPRETATION OF AWARD, (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Last Night. The Arbitration Court has given its decision in *ie application for an interpretation of the Award relating t« creameries, cheese, and butter factories The facts were that the Glaxo Company took over the dried mills factorv at Matangi in August, 1920, and was not bound by the Award made two months later for dried milK factories. The firm ceased making dried milk in March, and commenced making cheese. Overtime was not paid to the employees for time m excess of 44 hours after April Ist, as provided in the cheese factories award. The question was whether, the change over brought the company within the provisions of the cheese factory award, and thus made it a subsequent party to one part of the award, while at the same time it was not bound by the award so far as it -elated to its principal business. The Court stated that section 90, sub-sec-tion 3 of the Act was designed only for the purpose of bringing in as a subsequent party any employer who commenced business in an industry to which the award applied, while in force. The Court was of opinion that it had no jurisdiction to treat several branches of an industry covered by one award as separate industries, so as to automatically bind an employer not originally bound, who commenced operations in one of those branches in which he was not engaged when the award was maae. it thought the application to join the company as a party should :>e made in the ordinary way. Regarding the Chnstchurcli wire re th? freezing employers, the Registrar of the Court stated that the Court knew 013 no a nblguity in the general order, but thought the message might lefer to some difficulty in deducting per hour a reduction from the existing percentage increases. If tins is the case, it is a matter peculiar to freezing workers' awards, and does not create any difficulty in the case of other awards. It is possible that there has been so.ne misreading or the terms of :he general order.