ARBITRATION COURT TYPES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1255, 11 October 1911, Page 4

ARBITRATION COURT TYPES.

HOW DIFFERENT TRADESMEN LOOK. If Sherlock Holmes came to tho Arbitration Court, says tho Auckland "Star," he would •bo able to point out to his friend Watson the different callings of the witnesses. Tho ordinary habitue of tlio Court is denied this prescience, but cvon the most casual observer cannot fail to note a most marked difference in tho stamp of men who come along seeking better conditions and wages. The tailors, of whom it is generally supposed, it takes nine to mako a man, aro not by any means tho least likely to fill out a territorial uniform with credit and chest, but the most likely-looking lot that have appeared before tho,tribunal this sitting are the carriers. Their trade is said to bo particularly unsavoury in parts, but they seem to have thriven well notwithstanding. A rather interesting fact is tho facility with which one can. pick out a man who works at machinery from tho workman who only uses his luinds. Tlio machineminder lias an unmistakably intent look and a keenness of gazo acriuircd by long watching of whirring wheels and rapidlymoving mechanical devices that is quite absent from other classes of workerssuch, for instanoe, as nurserymen.