SECOND COURT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22896, 26 November 1937, Page 13

SECOND COURT

ARBITRATION WOEK

FIRST SITTING TO-DAY QUESTION OF DESIGNATION MEMBERS NOT " ASSESSORS" The first sitting of the second Court of Arbitration will commence to-day, when the newly-appointed Judge, Mr. Justice Hunter, and his associates, Mr. W. E. Anderson, employers' representative, and Mr. A. W. Croskery, workers' representative, will consider the hatters' dispute. Questions relating to internal organisation were considered at an informal conference of both Courts yesterday morning. In a subsequent announcement it was stated that now that Parliament had authorised a second Court of Arbitration it was considered desirable that a definite terminology should be adopted with a view to distinguishing the two Courts. Arrangements for Sittings It had been decided accordingly that they should he designated respectively as the "Court of Arbitration" and the "Second Court of Arbitration." It went without saying, of course, that both were of equal jurisdiction, but, for purposes of convenience, it was necessary that there should be a recognised designation for each. "With respect to the sittings of the two Courts, arrangements will be made from time to time and the necessary arrangements as to times and places made by the Judge of .the Court of Arbitration as heretofore," the statement continued. "The practice han grown up of designating the Judge as president of the Court, while the two nominated members are frequently referred to as assessors. In point of fact, however, this terminology is inaccurate. The tribunal consists of the Judge and two nominated members. Dominion Freezing Dispute

"The Judge is correctly designated Judge of the Arbitration Court, but his colleagues are equally members of the Court. They are correctly referred to as employers' and workers' representatives, respectively, but they an* not assessors. The term assessors is properly applicable only to the member of the tribunal under the chairmanship of a conciliation commissioner appointed to deal with industrial disputes in the first instance."

It has been decided to hear the Dominion freezing workers' dispute, one of the most important on the list, in Auckland on December 13 and 14. It has not yet been arranged which Court will hear the case.

NOMINATED MEMBERS APPOINTMENTS GAZETTED [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION"] WELLINGTON. Thursday Appointments as nominated members of the second Arbitration Court wore gazetted to-night. Mr. W. E. Anderson, of Auckland, has been appointed employers' member and Mr. A. \Y. Croskery, of Wellington, workers' member. The deputy members appointed are Mr. D. I. Macdonald. of Christchurch (employers) and Mr. G. T. Thurston, of Christchurch (workers).