ARBITRATION COURT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 287, 8 January 1915, Page 9

ARBITRATION COURT.

EMPLOYERS' REPRESENTATIVE. MR E. F. DUTHIE CHOSEN. PrfHK Association. WELLINGTON, January 7. At a meeting of the executive of the New Zealand Employers' Federation today, delegates were present representing 1 the Auckland, Hawke's Bay, Taranaki, Wahganui, Feilding, Manawatu, Wairarapa, Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago Employers' Association. The New Zealand Federated Builders' and Contractors' Association, the New Zealand Boot Manufacturers' Association, the New Zealand Sheepowners' Federation, the New Zealand Gas Companies' Association, ami the New Zealand Shipowners' Federation were also represented. Nine candidates were suggested -for. the position of employers' representative j on the Arbitration Court, and, after being ' ballotted for until the two most favoured for the position were found, it was unanimously decided to recommend industrial unions of employers to nominate Mr E. F. Duthie for the position. A resolution was unanimously adopted placing on record appreciation of the most valuable services rendered to the Dominion by Mr William Scott as employers' representative on the Court of Arbitration, and expressing regret that circumstances have required his withdrawal from a position of honour and responsibility, which he. had filled with such exceptional ability. |Mr Edward Fawns Duthie is a native of Otago. He joined the firm of .Jones, Duthie and Co., general carriers and contractors, in ISS7, but this business was subsequently amalgamated with the New Zealand Express Company, of which Mr Duthie was for many years the Dunedin manager, as veil as | one of the company's directors, lie lias now retired from the managership of' the company's affairs in Dunedin. He j wis secretary to the Otago Agricultural j j'.ini Pastoral Association fo'* some time, i !..i'd was also one of the members re- j presenting the city of Dunedin on the! Otago .Harbour Board, and a member j ot various other public bodies.. He has j been officially connected with many I public functions, such as the Industrial j Exhibition of fifteen or sixteen years ago, the organisation and dispatch of | the Fourth Contingent, to South Africa, j and various other public movements.], j