ARBITRATION COURT.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 16 May 1922, Page 3

ARBITRATION COURT.

o INTERPRETATION OF AWARD. INTERESTING POINT. Per Press Association —Copyright. AUCKLAND, May 15. The Arbitration Court gave its decision in the application for an inter- - pretation of the award relating to I creameries, cheese and butter facItories. The facts were that the Glaxo Company took over the dried milk factory at Matangi in August 1920, and was not bound by the award made two months later for dried milk factories. The firm ceased making dried milk in March and commenced making cheese. Overtime was not paid to the employees for time worked in excess of 44 hours after April 1 as provided in the cheese factories award.

The question was whether the change over brought the company within the provisions of the cheese factories award, and thus made it a subsequent party to one.part of the award, while at the same time it was not bound by the award so far as it related to its principal business. The Court stated that Section 90, sub-section 3 of the Act was designed only for the purpose of bringing in as a subsequent party any employer who commenced business in the industry to which the award applied while in force. The Court was of opinion that it had not jurisdiction to treat several branches of an industry covered by one award as separate industries so as to automatically bind an employer not originally bound, who commenced operations in one of those branches in which he was not engaged when the award was made. It thought that the application to join the company as a party should be made in the ordinary way.