DAIRY COMPANIES' AWARD
NEW APPLICATION DEFERRED COMPROMISE BETWEEN PARTIES. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 8. By mutual agreement the application by the Dairy Factory Companies’ Association for a new award in the northern district, and the application by the employees for exclusion from the 10 per cent, cut, have been' deferred until the end of the year, when, failing the parties agreeing at a conference, the court w iU grant a special hearing of the tlispute at Wellington or New Plymouth, Local disputes in other districts will also be postponed pending the conference, Yesterday Mr Justice Frazer suggested that the parties should confer, which they did, and this morning Mr J. Roberts tor the employees said all the cards had been placed on die table by both sides, and the farmers’ position appeared to be bad indeed. “We are willimr to wait tor better times,” he said-, “ but surely the employers will restore the 10 per cent. cut. The judge congratulated the parties ion doing the wise thing. “ I imagine that by December things will be improved, he
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21409, 10 August 1931, Page 2
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