TYPOGRAPHERS' AWARD.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20108, 11 December 1930, Page 3

TYPOGRAPHERS' AWARD.

COURT INTERPRETS A CLAUSE. (press association telegbam.) WELLINGTON, December 10. The Court of Arbitration! was recently asked to interpret the Dominion Typographers' Award. The question asked was: "In the case of 6 point and 7 point type is the multiple to be used the number of en quads per line or the average number of actual letter matrices and space bands per line?'' "The Court may not have fully understood the technical terms used in Clause 17 (d), but its intention is clear from the memorandum, and that intention was to provide for payment in ratio to the amount of work performed," stated his Honour Mr Justice Frazer. "The memorandum is not strictly part of the award, but it serves to explain what was in the mind of the Court. The Court now understands that the en quad matrices in use on the machine may not have any relar tioii to the . face of type used. It was formerly under the impression 'that an en quad bore a definite relation to the face of type in use and could be treated for practical purposes as a letter of the average size of that type. If it is necessary to remove any ambiguity in Clause 17 (d) the Court will amend the clause to harmonise with the intention expressed in the memorandum. The correct method of ascertaining the liiultiple ior .6 point and 7 point typo is to take the average number of actual

letter matrices and space bands per line. "JWr Monteith does not agree with the foregoing, and was not in agreement with the majority when the award "was mado. He is of the opinion that en quads cannot be regarded as the same thing as letter matrices."