ARBITRATION COURT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23273, 16 February 1939, Page 19

ARBITRATION COURT

| LATE JUDGE'S PGSITION PENDING APPOINTMENT [from our own correspondent] CANBERRA, Feb. 10 The Federal Government.will appoint a Chief Judge to the Federal Arbitration Court in succession to the late Judge Dethridge within the next two weeks, Mr. Justice Cantor, a member of the New South Wales Industrial Commission, is regarded as likely to fill the vacancy. It is stated in official circles that in making the appointment the Government may make important proposals to clarify and make more flexible the conditions under which the Arbitration Court operates. The Court Ms frequently been criticised on the grounds that it is not as accessible as State Arbitration Courts.

Mr. Justice Maurice Emanuel Cantor was born in Melbourne in 1887 and was appointed \to the Bench in December, 1927. Ho is regarded as one of the best industrial jurists in Australia, and has the confidence of both employers and employees. Ho has boon the arbitrator at many voluntary and compulsory industrial conferences, and has succeeded in many eases in bringing about a settlement of major industrial disputes. Before being appointed to the commission, of which at times he has been ncting-ehnirm.m, lie had an extensive industrial practice at the Bar, an.i has at some time or other appeared for most of tlio large unions.