CONCILIATION COURT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 13 April 1934, Page 5

CONCILIATION COURT

SITTING AT WAIHI NEW INDUSTRIAL AGREEMENT (By Telegraph—Press Association) WAIHI. This Day. Following a three day’s sitting, the Conciliation Court. Mr P. Hally, commissioner, presiding, concluded the hearing last evening of applications by ihe Waihi Miners’ Union and district branches of tiie Amalgamated Engineers’ and Engine Drivers’ Union, for a new industrial agreement with the. Waihi G.M. Company and the Golden Dawn G.M. Company and for the restoration of the ten per cent, cut im posed in June 1931. The result was that the miners’ representatives accepted the Waihi Company’s offer of an increaSp of Is 3d per day in the form of a special bonus, payment to be payable quarterly, on a 44 hour week. The case of the Golden Dawn Company, which so far has not shown profits, was adjourned for a few day ; after the owner?.' representative, Mr J. Farrell, had made it clear that the company was not in a position t.o pay an increased rate. Mv J. Roberts, tiie miners’ advocate, sug gested that it should be left to the workers employed by this company to decide whether they were prepared to go oil under the current rate or alternatively face the possibility of the mine, closing down. Thi; aspect will be discussed at a miners’ meeting on Sunday The sub-unions concerned also accepted the Waihi company’s terms.