BONUS MATTERS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17116, 11 April 1921, Page 6

BONUS MATTERS.

PRONOUNCEMENT BY COURT IK MAY. The Registrar of the Court of tration, in a, statement made to a re* presentative of "The Press" on Satur* day, dealt with the remark, attributed to Mr A. H. Makrell at a meeting of the lnvercargill Chamber of Commerce <. on Friday, which appeared in Satun.: day's issue of "The Press," to the eflert | that a further bonus of 2» per week , to workers would be declared in a few days. Mr Hammond, the Registrar Statcd that the Court h&a not made', any pronouncement which would jua» - tii'y Mr Makrell in his o»Bamp*,*-, tion. In November, lost, tho under legislation enabling it to a bonus to meet the increased cost of s living and on tho basis of the cosUu* living figures supplied by tho ment Statistician, arrived at a conchw' sion that the workers were entitled} to a bonus of- 5s per week as from vember Ist last, but that tho wcrkenh having been overpaid to the extent 2s per week in tho bonus granted for 3 the preceding six months, the Novem-"!? ber bonus would be reduced to as per _, webk to balance the overpayment. being so," Mr Hammond went on to say, £ "the overpayment will have been UquK| dated by the end of thift month, and* the workers, in tho ordinary course and * in the, absence of airy alteration in tM;f cost-ofiliving figures, muU-'be entaUaig to payment of the 2s per week «««»§ had previously been awarded as Jam of the November btmus, but deducted by reason of the previous overpayment, \ However, the question of the amount of bonus payable as from May. la** proximo depends upon the coat-oHW*-ing figures covering the .bljmborttWJ period ended on March aisTlast, and. as these figures aro not yet available. tho matter of any future Jbonu* hal ; not been considered by■ the-Court. ,- With reference to the bonus wWe* may be payable as from May Ist aaxW it is understood that.it wib« dnm»| ed bv the Court, which will b* sjtttngj nt Wellington in May,. >t m Mm ticipated, the Government Btatistidanj.| figures'relating to the cost of WW, durine the Bix months ended Maiwu 81st will be available. '&■