ARBITRATION COURT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 163, 3 April 1908, Page 4

ARBITRATION COURT.

9 ;. : (DI TEI.EGRAI'It.—PRESS ASSOCIATION V■ ' I , ' . Palmerston North, April' 2 :' Tlio i Arbitratioh !| 'CoUrt' sat' here 'to-day; before Mr. Justice Sim and Messrs. S Brown and J M'Cullough Several eases of. alleged. broaches of the Flaxniillcrs' 'Award wero heard, the. following millers being proceeded against by'the Inspector,- it being alleged. that they had charged 15s. for ;board instead -of 145.,' as specified in the award :~L. Seifort, Geor«e Craw, Ross and Bradshaw, F. Easton,' and 1). Porter. The defence in each ease was. that' the catering contracts had been' let to a cook,, who paid so much rent for the use of the cookhouse. Judgment was reserved in each caso. ■ . i • '■" An application for the reopening of tlio Wellington' Typographical' Award in regard to the.' clause affecting thb'hours of Simplex' operators' was refused. " A caso against Bevan.and M'Donald, flax-. millers, 1 for an alleged breach of the award in respect, to ' paying- Wages weekly or fort-: ■ nightly was dismissed, as was-a'ease anainst the Manawatu .Fibre Company .for alleged wrongful dismissal of an employee.... '■ The Court , will'- Sit ' again 'to-morrow, to bonsidcr the . bakers'^'dispute,! and to. 'hear several, more applications-.for enforcembiit of awards., : -