LONG COURT CASE
SEVEN YEARS OCCUPIED OVER FOUR MILLION WORDS Seven years after it was first listed, the Arbitration Court case, in which the Australian Federated "Union of Locomotive Engineinen seeks from the Railway Commissioners of Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania improved rates of pay and conditions, concluded in Melbourne recently, and it remains now only for the award to be delivered. The evidence and addresses in this, which is believed to be the most protracted case which has over occupied the attention of the Federal Arbitration Court, fill' 20 volumes in the records of the Court Registry and extend over 12,800 pages of foolscap typescript. The reporting branch of the Federal Attorney-General's Department estimates its output of transcript to be 4,608,000 type-written- words.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21911, 21 September 1934, Page 14
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124LONG COURT CASE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21911, 21 September 1934, Page 14
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