SIGNS AND DISCS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 867, 20 November 1916, Page 8

SIGNS AND DISCS.

WHO PUTS THEM UP? THE MOTOR?,!EN'S APPEAL. With respect to the application n :ule by the Inspector of Awards, Cr.rislchurch, for an in'erprelation of Chaise I of the Christ church Tramway Workers' Award, Mr .ii'slice Stringer, President of the Ccnrt of Arbitration, lias tiled a reply. Clause 1 ("Time Allowance") reads:—The following time allowances shall be made: Motonnen, taking car out of shed, 10 nuns.: conductors, taking car out. of shed, 10 mins. . . . The question asked, on behalf of the Union, was:—Can the Board, having relieved the conductors of a duty to put up destination signs and discs on cars during the prescribed ten minutes' allowance, impose the said duly upon motonnen, to be executed within the ten minutes allowed to them? The Court's answer was:—There is no definition of the work to be done by motonnen or conductors in the ten minutes time allowed to them respectively for taking the car out of the shed. The allocation of the work to be done within such time is, therefore, a matter for the Board to determine, from time to time, as it thinks proper. The question raised is, therefore, outside the scope of the award and cannot be answered by the Court.