COURT OF ARBITRATION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 170, 11 April 1908, Page 7

COURT OF ARBITRATION.

" FEDERATED SEAMEN'S. AWARD. i RESPONSIBILITY FOR A MISTAKE. "With icfferenco to tlio mistake which, iti alleged, has been mado in tho Federated Sen men's award, tho Registrar of tho Court o Arbitration (Mr. B. M. Wilson) has supple the following; monlorandum to the Press "; : "sVhon this dispute camo before .th Court, Mr. Pryor, who appeared for tho Wei lington Steam Ferry .Company, stated tha tho parties, had settled tho dispute. Ho. pre deeded then to state 1 th© terms of settlement one of tlicso being that tho hours of, wor were not to bo moro than ton hours for an day during seven days, ..oxclusivo of/DM hours. 1 Tho following is a. copy-of Hi Honour's noto of tho agreement! oil th point:—' Old award to bo adopted'. Claus 2, tho hours of work not to be more than, to] hours* for any day during seven days ot. th weak, oxclusivo of meal hours. Kach day t stand by itself, for the purposes of overtime. Mr. Jones, who appeared for tho TJmon,' as sented to Mr. Pryor's statombnt. of th terms, and tho award was mado in accord 'anco with tho terms as thus' stated. If an mistako has been made, it has been mad by Mr.', Jones, who'appears to'havo agree to something lio did not intend to; and h ought not attempt to shift tho rosponsibilit; forV mistake, for which ho alono is rcspon sible, by saying that a ' clerical' error ha been mado in drawing up the award."