SHIPPING INDUSTRY.
THE AUSTRALIAN ARBITRATION
AWARD.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,
SYDNEY, May 3, (Received May 4, at 0.22 a.m.)
Tho Commonwealth Arbitration Ckmrt, oil tho application of the Merchant Service Guild, has granted a, common rule relating' to the shipping industry in respect of an award mado in December last year. Bio judge 6aid that as all tho interState steamships competed more or less with tho int-er-Stato companies already bound by the award, and as tho term of the award was fairly applicable to a large number of bucli steamships, the court bad decided to make its terms a common rule in respect of all ships trading between tho State 6 or on any voyage from tlm Commonwealth to ports outside Australia specified in the award—namely, New Zealand, Now Caledonia, or the Fiji group—which begins Mid ends within the Commonwealth. His Honor mado a provision that the rule should not imposo a hardship on any owner who was. ablo to produce satisfactory evidence that tho award was not fairly applicable to his ships or shipping business.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13894, 4 May 1907, Page 10
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