ARBITRATION COURT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12069, 12 September 1902, Page 6

ARBITRATION COURT.

[by telegraph.—press association.] Do.vedi.y, Thursday. The Arbitration Court has given the award in the bricklayers' dispute. The minimum wage is fixed at Is 6cl per hour. The Court declined to accede to a request to abolish piecework known as " labour only." The number of youths is not limited. Preference is to be given to unionists on the , usual conditions. ! In the hairdressers' dispute the award is i on the same lines as the Christchurch j award. i An application was made for the amendj ment of the award in the tailoresses' disj pute. One of the principal points was the wages of apprentices, by which they receive 16s' per week after being 15 mouths at work. Mr. Justice Cooper said this was not an application to amend, but to set aside the award and make a new one altogether. If the rates could not be paid it was far better that the girls should go into domestic service than that they should go to a factory and work 44 hours for 3d jr 4d an hour." Had the employers brought the matter of Government contracts before the Court some relief might have been granted. The Court would make a general order that contracts proved to have been in existence at the date the Court commenced to hear the dispute should be exempt from the operation of the award which dealt with such orders. The Court heard a compensation case this afternoon, in which Susan North claimed £259 from the Refrigerating Company for the death of her husband. Deceased was engaged conveying paunches, when he fell over au embankment 10ft high, receiving concussion of the spine. The defence Mas that deceased, who was subject to epileptic fits, had fallen while in a fit. The * Court considered the evidence fell far j short of proving that deceased had a fit I when he tell, and gave judgment for £233 j 4s 3d, with £15 15s costs.