ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13664, 31 March 1908, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

- . OTAGO DISPUTES. . MUSTEkSrS 7 AWARD. ' Per Pfess Association. DUNEDIN, 3] arch 30. The Arbitration Court's award in the musterers' dispute provides that musterers shall be paid not less than 10s per day when engaged for less than a week, and £2 2s per week for a week or more, with additional payment in the latter case for Sunday mustering. Musterers are^to bfi .paid 10$ per day ■for snow-raking*. Hegular ' iarui or station hands engaged in mustering . Occasionally ay© ' not subject to this award. Youths may be employed as learners at not less, than the following .rates, plus board and lodging : — First year 17s 6d per week, second 22s 6d. The proportion -of learnww to adult musterers to be not more than one to four, t • Wher,e reasonably practicable, mnsterers shall be provided with good, dry 'sleeping accommodation on lulls. Provision- is ; also'made against discrimination against unionists. The award comes into force on May Ist, and has a currency of two years. , The union asked for an award for shepherds also, but did not prove any necessity for such an awj\rd or furnish material on which an .award could be* based, so the Court decided not to deal with the subject. MINERS' AWARD. The award in the dispute between the Otaga and, Southland Goldminers' Industrial Union of Workers and ltound Hill Mining Company, provides for eight-hour shifts and the following minimum rates of wages: — Claim hands and race-men Is per hour, blacksmiths 9s per shift ; wages npw being paid by the Round Hill Coropany- to tace-men in excess ot rato fixed not to bo reduced during the currency of the award; overtime for Sundays and holidays to be paid as fixed by the Mining Act Amendment Act. 1906~ Youths may be employed at not less than the following:" rato=: : — Eighteen to 20 years, 6s per shift.. 20 to 21 years 7s per* shift. Provision h made for un-der-rate workers and for preference to provided the union admits to membership without a lnillot a person of- good character oa an entrance* fee of not moro tbnn 03 ;md a contribution not exceeding 6d per week. This clause is not to prevent the employment of present workers who' may not be unionists. The award comes into force on April 13, and continues for one year.