ARBITRATION COURT

Southland Times, Issue 19330, 15 September 1921, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT

ATTORNEY GENERAL’S ADVICE. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 14. The Attorney-General in an amended opinion on the Arbitration Court situation says he now finds he w’as in error in stating Mr Reardon’s position as deputy representative had been rendered vacant. Mr Reardon’s appointment does not lapse in consequence of Mr McCullough’s resignation. AUCKLAND NOMINATIONS. AUCKLAND, September 14. The Auckland branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers nominated Messrs McCullough and Bloodworth for the two vacancies on the Arbitration Court. Mr Bloodworth will accept nomination for the representative position if Mr McCullough declines, and he wall stand for the deputy position if Mr McCullough consents. EMPLOYERS’ ASSOCIATION’S RESOLUTION. TIMARU, September 14. The executive of the South Canterbury Employers’ Association to-night discussed the impasse in connection with the Arbitration Couit, and resolved unanimously that the charge made by Mr McCullough, the workers’ representative, that Mr Justice Frazer and Mr Scott, the employers’ representative, had broken a gentlemen’s agreement was contrary to feet and an appeal to class prejudice. The Association recorded its confidence in the Court presided over by Mr Justice Frazer.