ARBITRATION COURT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12840, 8 December 1911, Page 7

ARBITRATION COURT.

(Per Pr»*ss A.isoeinTion ' WELLINGTON, Doc. 0. Tho Arbitration Court concluded its last sitting for tho year to-day, Mr. Justice Sim presiding, with him Messrs 11. Scott and J. A. McCullough, employers' and workers' representatives respectively. In the case in which tho Inspector of Awards sought to recover from tho Wellington Gas Coy. a penalty for an alleged breach or. tho carpenter's award by employing a carpenter at Miramar outside the two mile radius from tho city without paying for tho timo occupied in travelling to and fro, tho Court held that tho company was not carrying on a building business within tho meaning of tho award. Tho company was engaged in tho manufacture- and sale of gas at Miramar and any building work it did was incidental to its main business. , Judgment was given for the defend- ' ant. Air. McCullough did nut concur in the judgment, considering that the company carried on the business in Wellington. ! Tho Inspector proceeded against tho ■ Miramar Borough Council foi employ- : ing an employee to erect picket fences, tho man not being a member of the Carpenters' Union and was not paid the '. award rate of v, ages J udgtueui was : reserved. i

Edward Charman claimed £? Us M compensation for accident and medical expenses from Charles Emery, his em- , ployer. Plaintiff was doing the plas- ■ tcring work and in tho course «A hi» employment stooped down and struck a projecting beam which caused an in- \ jury leading to an abscess which had ! necessitated two operations.

Tho defence was that no notice of tho accident had been given.

Tho Court held that that was no answer and gave judgment for £7 4s and costs, an item for a medical certificate being disallowed. '