MINOR INDUSTRIAL CASES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20852, 7 October 1937, Page 6

MINOR INDUSTRIAL CASES

COURT TO BE RELIEVED OF THEM HEARING BY SPECIAL MAGISTRATES By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINTON, October 6. The appointment of industrial magistrates to assist in the work of the Arbitration Court will be a distinctive development of New Zealand's industrial legislation. These appointments are provided for in a Bill now being drafted as an amendment to the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. In explaining the proposed Bill, the Minister of Labour, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, said the measure was designed for the smoother working of the court which would be authorised to delegate matters of minor importance to magistrates. “It Will relieve the court of a considerable amount of work that now occup ! 3 so much of its time,” he said. “With this Bill on the Statute Book it will be found that the work of the court will be considerably expedited. It will get through its work much quicker.” The Minister said that industrial magistrates would hear cases in connection with Labour legislation that were now heard by stipendiary magista ites. “Iridustrial magistrates will in reality form a link between the Conciliation Councils and the court,” he continued. “In addition, they will hear civil actions brought by the Labour Department in respect of wages. Mr Armstrong said that industrial magistrates would be appointed under the same terms as stipendiary magistrates. The cases they heard would be subject to appeal to the Arbitration Court.