AMENDING AWARDS
THE ARBITRATION COURT'S JURISDICTION. CHRISTCHURCH, August 6. Variation in the cost of living is the only ground on which the Arbitration Court has jurisdiction to amend awards while they are in force, except by mutual consent of the parties to the award. Such was the text of the judgment given by Air Justice Frazer in the Arbitration Court- to-day, when the Canterbury paner bag, carton, and box makers asked that (heir award fee amended so as to equalise the wages of females with the wages paid t-o females in Wellington. They also asked tiiar the award be continued on an equitable basis until the expiry of other printing trade awards —namely, on April 2, 1922.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3517, 9 August 1921, Page 51
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117AMENDING AWARDS Otago Witness, Issue 3517, 9 August 1921, Page 51
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