THE ARBITRATION COURT.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13410, 6 March 1914, Page 5

THE ARBITRATION COURT.

" FURNITURE TRADE APPEAL

1 United Pbess Association.]

Wellington, Maich 5. At the Arbitration Court the Wellington Furniture Trade Union appealed against the decision of Mr J. S. Evans, S.M., in dismissing a case against Scoullar and Co., Ltd., in which the appellants alleged that the company had employed more than the number' of apprentices it, was entitled to. The- appeal was made upon a fault of law. The appellants contended that the judgment was wrong in law, inasmuch as the Magistrate wrongly held that under the industrial award applicable to tlio case the defendant company, in calculating the numter of apprentices which it was entitled to employ in the upholstering branch of -ts business, could take into account and lump together the number of all journeymen employed by it in different departments of 'the upholstering branch of its business.

The Court reserved its <k?cisiqir. The plumbers' dispute was coivtiiwotf, and adjourned till Monday.