AN ERRONEOUS REPORT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19802, 29 May 1926, Page 9

AN ERRONEOUS REPORT.

LABOUR OFFICIAL INDIGNANT. TRIBUTES IN ARBITRATION COURT. (Pan United Pbehs Association l CHRISTCHURCH, “The Labour Department has been accused by a report in the Christchurch newspapers cf adopting pin-pricking methods in its dealings with the employers, but 1 shall continue to do so as I have done in the past and slate the position fairly and squarely.” These were the words of Mr A. E. Waite, officer in charge of the Christchurch office of the Labour Department, in the Arbitration Court to-day. Mr W. Cecil Prime (for the employers) assured Mr Waite that the employers had nothing to do with the reports that appeared in the press. What had been said at the last session of the court in Christchurch had been misunderstood. The reporters were not to blame. Mr Prime said he knew Mr Waite personally and he had never had occasion to think that (he department was guilty of piii nricking. Mr Justice Fraser .said he could not understand how anybody could have taken exception to the manner in which Mr Waite cr his officers had carried out their duties. Mr IV. Scott, employers representative on the court, said that so far as he was aware the employers had no complaint to make concerning the department s methods of working. “At our last Christchurch session,” said his Honour, “the court was so pleased with the full and accurate reports that it had written to Mr Waite congratulating him on his work.”