SUGAR-WORKS DISPUTE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2051, 10 September 1920, Page 2

SUGAR-WORKS DISPUTE.

PROSPECTS OF SETTLEMENT. EAW SUPPLIES FOR THE SOUTH. Press Association. AUCKLAND, September P. As the result of a conference at the Board of Trade rooms this morning lmtween representatives of the transport •workers and the Board of Trade, arrangements were made for sending south 300 tons of raw sugar brought up from the Islands by the Atua. This amount will b« evenly distributed between Lvttelton. Oamaru, Timaru, and Bluff, and the balance of the shipment, some 100 tons, will be sent to Wellington by the Navua. The most satisfactory of the latest developments in the sugar workers" dispute is the decision of the Arbitration Court to inspect the Chelsea sugar ■works on Saturday, notwithstanding the fact that the works would not be operating. This decision was come to at a sitting of the Court this morning, Mr Justice Stringer presiding. Mr Wright. fOT the employers, suggested that as the promise of the Court to view the works in operation was hardlv possible of fulfilment, the works might be inspected as they stood. Evidence could b" taken from both sides as to the operations usually conducted. That would probably tend to a settlement. His Honour said that he and his colleagues were inclined to fall in with that suggestion. He did'not know that it would be necessary to take, formal evidence. The union should be invited to send its secretary and two employees, ■and the company might have the foreman of each department present. It was decided that the party should leave by launch on Saturday morning.