ENGINE-DRIVERS' WAGES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1435, 9 May 1912, Page 4

ENGINE-DRIVERS' WAGES.

i NEW AWARD SOUGHT. (By TclesrapU—Press Association.) Auckland, May 8. The chief point in dispute in the case of the engine-drivers which was before tho Arbitration Court to-day was wages. The Court said it would consider an application for exemption in respect of the Hospital and Costlcy Home. Mr. Kane, : referring (o wages, said fln>' ! unions wanted an alteration made from so much a shift to so much an hour, which would mean that men would 1x» paid for raising steam, Jlo pointed out that tho new regulations provided for a much more difficult examination than was the case when Mr. Justice Cooper made the award under which they wore working. Mr. Bower, engineering coach, said that under the old regulations. he generally expected to get , a second certi6eate man sitting for a fir.«t certificate through in about, three months, hut now it took fully nine months. The examinations to-day wero much more comprehensive than formerly. Mr. Grosvenor said employers held by the old award and contended that nothing (hat had occurred since was sufficient to warrant any alteration. Mr. Grosveiior asked for exemption on behalf of several employers, 'Iho Court intimated that the points raised would he considered and a decision given at a later date.