TO SIT TO-DAY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20895, 26 November 1937, Page 8

TO SIT TO-DAY

SECOND COURT OF ARBITRATION By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, November 25. The first sitting of the Second Court of Arbitration will commence tomorrow. Mr Justice Hunter and his associates, Mr W. E. Anderson (employers’ representative) and Mr A. W. Croskery (workers’ representative) will consider the hatters’ dispute. Questions relating to internal organisation were considered at a: informal conference of both courts. In a subsequent announcement it was stated that now that Parliament h'.d authorised the Second Court, it was considered desirable that a definite terminology should be adopted with a view to distinguishing the two courts. It had been decided, accordingly, that they should be designated respectively as the “Court of Arbitration” and the “Second Court of Arbitration.” It went without saying that both were of equal jurisdiction, but for purposes of convenience it was necessary that there should be a recognised designation for each. “With respect to the sittings of the two courts arrangements w be made from time to time and necessary arrangements as to times and places made by the Judge of the Court of Arbitration as heretofore,” the statement continued. “The practice has grown up of designating the Judge as President of the Court, while two nominated members are frequently referred to as assessors. In point of fact, however, this terminology is inaccurate. The tribunal consists of a judge and ‘wo nominated members. The judge is correctly desig: ted Judge of the Arbitration Court but his colleagues are equally members of the Court. They are correctly referred to as employers’ and workers’ representatives respectively, but they are not assessors. The term assessors is properly applicable only to members of a tribunal under the chairmanship of a Conciliation Commissioner appointed to deal with Industrial disputes in the first instance.” It has been decided to hear the Dominion freezing worker;’ dispute, one of the most important on the list, at Auckland on December " and 14. It has not yet been decided which court will hear the case.