ARBITRATION COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12604, 6 March 1903, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

DECISIONS AND AWARDS. (Pes United Press Association.) ■' AUCKLAND, March 5. The Arbitration Court gavo their decision in the tailoring dispute to-day. Tho only point disputed was tho wages paid .to female coat hands, the union asking 37s 6d and : the masters agreeing to 30s. Tho court held that as 30s was the minimum wage in tho south, and as girls had asked for this wage, they saw no reason to alter it. The wage would remain at 30s. The court further decided that when a girl caino out of her apprenticeship she should get 25s for sis months; then tho full minimum wage. The court gave its decision in the claim under the Workers' Compensation Act ill whic'u John Joseph Dickson claimed £1 a* week from the Talisman Consolidated Gold Mining Company for injuries received' while working in respondents' mine as one of a party of contractors. After reviewing the judgments in various cases at some length', the court hold that it was impossible for them to hold that the claimant was not an independent contractor and within the decision of this court in Smith v. Clark. For the reasons stated in .that case he was not within tho act. If this class of workmen, was to be brought within the act it must be by distinct legislative cnaotment and the statute not as it now stood. This judgment must therefore be for the respondents, with £6 8s costs.