ARBITRATION COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13695, 11 September 1906, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

(Pee United Press Associatiox.)

OAMARU, September 10. A sitting of tho Arbitration Court was hejd in Oamiiru to-day.

I'or breaches of llio .ailorcsses award, Norman M; Hood was lined £5 on each of four and Cieorgc Snaddcu £5 for one offence.

An application on tho part of tlio Painters' Union of Kmp'.oyecs of Dimcdin far tlio extension of the painters' award to Oamarn occupied a considerable' amount of limn. A conference between the representative!) of tlio union nml the master painters had resulted /in an agreement on a number of points, though objection was offered to the extension of the award. The points still in dispute referred principally to payment for travelling time in Roitipr to and from country''jobs, and to whether or not fiiere was any demand on tho part of the employees here lor the' extension. The evidence disclosed that no union or branch of the union existed here.' The proceedings had been -initiated a considerabjo time ago in Dunedin. Judgment was reserved.

flic union of bookmakers' operatives of Duncdin also asked that their award should bo extended .to this district liv the addition cf .Turtles M'Diarmid (employer) to .the award. The respondent objected on tho ground that be paid his men more than the minimum wage, and flint they did not desire the extension, and on the ground that tho award _ did not provide for . tho exigencies of his business in respect of manufacturing for iho trade and repairing. His Honor intimated that a workable clause (or this purpose could be. drafted, and.judgment was reserved.