ARBITRATION COURT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12017, 6 March 1920, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

Per Press Association Dunedin, March 5 The Arbitration Court list to-day •was a record one, there being 74 applications of various kinds made, and complete and partial recommendations for awards were dealt with. A large number of applications were for the clothing bonus, upon which the Court made a pronouncement at tire end of the year, to operate retrospectively. This was challenged, Mr Cookson, employers’ representative, arguing that the on ly*’power of amending awards during their currency was conferred by the War Legislation and the Statute Law Amendment which limited the operations to the date of the order or subsequent. The judge held tentatively that the Court’s power to increase wages under the Arbitration Act was not vitiated by this section, ar.d said he would look into the matter. Wellington, March 5 The Arbitration Court award in the Wellington dairy employees’ dispute fixes a 48 hours’ week, to be worked six days. This clause is to operate so long as the City Council shall allow or pay the distributing companies an amount equal to the wages of any additional workers required to bring about a six-day week. The minimum rate of wages is £3 15s, and a quart of milk daMy.