1931 WAGES LEVEL
ARBITRATION COURT SUGGESTED EXPLANATION (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. A suggested explanation for the dictum of Mr Justice Page that wages would not be increased beyond the 1931 level, except in special circumstances, was given by Mr Reardon, Conciliation Commissioner during the hearing of a dispute. Mr Reardon said the' Arbitration Court had found itself “snowed under” with work, and had said that if parties to an application for a new award could not agree in conciliation on wages, then the 1931 rates would be awarded. Hours, however, would be decided if no agreement could be reached. There might be injustice in some cases and there certainly were some anomalies on account of the changed conditions since 1931. The Court nevertheless took the view; that it had no time to rectify anomalies and aimed to catch up on its work with the assistance of interested par : ties, leaving consideration of what might be thought to be anomalies to some future occasion.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 December 1936, Page 9
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