SPECIAL BOARDS OF CONCILIATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13846, 4 September 1908, Page 9

SPECIAL BOARDS OF CONCILIATION.

rvf Sir,—l permed in tlie issue of your paper *• l i , t o judgment and recommendations of tho special Board of Conciliation A m the industrial dispute recently held m Auckland i between the Electric * Tram Company and its employees; and I have anrTllff " l f olht>l ' it>sutis the many protests and J® 1,4613 of your correspondents, express!!L i surprise , and indignation at tho fnli ' ft evils which were Jikcly to follow thence, to the detriment of tho colony. flm Tr< 111 -v ew ZciUanJ in 1894,' when I?,J , Conciliation Act was passed, and r r A looked uit ° k > n ° r int ° tho eight other Acts passed to amend it and , • ? Judgment and recommendations surti ™,°\ , oy IxMU Ilot only novel but mm" ? g a ',i 1 resolved to investigate their t „, •" ,t t ' l . e General Assembly is now in j ic- on, there is room for inquiry to be made ! :? lts members as to what caused a special board be constituted for the adjustment of the dispute, which had 'arisen «ncr two years ago. As tho result of my tesearchea my tend to relieve tho anx•ty and fears of your correspondents, permit ° ln «jr!ti them that the judgment and recommendations are null and void, owing to tho Board not being legally constituted, i 1 •firman of tho Board ought to have been appointed by the members of the l-oanl, in io?v an ™ with the provisions of th ; Aet * ipOO, .°- 51, and not by His Kx- «■ 1 euey the Governor - Had the Board wo /L° rdiar - V ' ri maileut 110 ' the ease would havo been different. t ttrnell. SIXOLETON Rochkvout. _______