ARBITRATION COURT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8855, 4 July 1907, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

Farm Labourers’ Dispute. Press Association. Blenheim, July 4. At the Arbitration Court this morning William Osgood, builder, was- fined £lO, covering throe breaches of the carpenters’ award. Thos. May, builder, was fined £5. J. Leslie, plumber, was fined £5,. The farm labourers’ dispute is now being beard. Two hundred and forty, farmers have been cited by the labour union, "The Fafmers’ Unioif is defending the pass. I Air Brown, the’employers’ sentative Qn the Bench, is absent owing to ill health. file farm labourers’ case abruptly terminated, the President ruling that the procedure laid down in sections 105 and 106 of the Industrial and Conciliation Act, 1905, had not been complied with by the Labour Union in citing the employers. The Court therefore had no jurisdiction and the case was dismissed,