HARBOUR EMPLOYEES’

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23013, 3 October 1944, Page 4

HARBOUR EMPLOYEES’

AWARD Breaches By Lyttelton Board (N.Z.P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH. Oct. 2. The decision of Mr F. F. Reid. S.M., against the Lyttelton Harbour Board for two breaches of the New Zealand Harbour Boards Employees’ Award was upheld in a written judgment of the Arbitration Court delivered by Mr Justice Tyndall. “A similar case in which the same employer, the same worker and the same issues were involved was dealt with bv this Court on appeal in 1942." states the judgment. “During the hearing of the present appeal no fresh argument was advanced. Mr J. F. B. Stevenson, for appellant, informed lhe Court that certain further proceedings by way of an originating summons had been issued and suggested that, perhaps, the Court in its discretion might defer its decision on appeal until the originating summons had been dealt with. We have given consideration to Mr Stevenson's suggestion but in view of the fact that more than a year has elapsed since the learned Magistrate delivered his judgment, we feel that the appeal should be disposed of without further delay As we cannot distinguish the present case from our previous decision in 1942. and as no fresh argument had been advanced, we must dismiss the appeal.”