LABOUR.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13462, 7 December 1907, Page 5

LABOUR.

MR LLOYD GEORGE THANKED

Press. Afisociation-By Telegraph-Copyright Received. 9.55 p.m., December 6th. LONDON, December 6. Mr Llovel' George, President' -of the Board of Trad'e," was thanked for his intervention, which led to a mutually satisfactory settlement of the disput. about, cotton operatives' wages at Oldham. ARBITRATION COURT. Per Press Association. GREYMOUTH, December 6. The' Arbitration: Court cdnnriencetl its sitting this morning. The dispute between .the Grey Valley Miners' Union and : the Tyneside Colliery Company was ainicably settled out of Court. In the compensation cases, Charles Codyre, claim £265 for injuries received, v. the U"iiion Company, the defence wits that Cpdyre received lialf wages for some months and then resumed work, signing a clear discharge. Codyre swore that be tried to work for a fortnight, and Hie doctor advised him to stop .ati his leg went back 011 linn. ;He did not. know that lie was signing a discharge, but thought it was a receipt for an instalment, due;- After hearing a good deal of evidence tho Court reserved its decision. '.' Robert Fraser v. G. Schaef, claim £l5O for an- accident at ScliaePs factory whereby Fraser lost, three fingers. Schaef took the lad back at- the same wage as formerly; 1110 Court made a declaration of liability, and .ordered! payment of £4 15s compensation and cost*. \ -"'•lnthe case R. Whitesmith v. The King, claim £4OO for the -death of a son killed at the State coal mine the Court awarded £IOO damages, £l7 17s costs, and £lO funeral expenses. .. : Osborne v. Rigg, chum £4OO, for the death of a soil through a trap accident ■asettlement wis 11 ranged for £65 and costs. ■ '