ARBITRATION COURT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1752, 17 May 1913, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

» OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND AWARDS. (By Telegraph.—PrcEd Association.) Dunedin, May IG. The last of the Duuodin disputes this session was finished before the Arbitration Court to-day, several important decisions beins made. 1 In respect to the Dunedin Brewers Bottlers' Award, the Court exempted wholesale chemists and merchants. Jfegarding the employment of youths, the Court points out that the original clause was 100 wide in its terms. Xo yonlhs under 18 shall bo employed in bottling intoxicating liquors. In respect of the Otago and Southland Cheese i'actor.v Managers' Award, Ihe Judge's memorandum states that the Court had to strike out (lie provision'; contained in the Conciliation Council's recommendation, which the award embodies, and lmd to redraw some obscure clauses. For the 12 elites of managers, the salaries range from .£l5O to ,£3">o; <neh manager to be .provided with a fourroomed house. No piecework, is to be allowed. The Taieri and Peninsula Co. is exempted from the clauses as to --alary and piecework, but shall pay their elicVse factory managers, while making cheese, a minimum of .£;! 1(K per week. | The 11 ward nperntes from September I, and continues in operation for three S TII the matter of the eoalynrd workers' di'-pnte. the Conil claims full responsibility for making nn award. The union asked*.o H week for permruionl workers and I s . 'id. per hour for rir-uils. 'I'he emplovur.- offered •">?■ l>er week for permanent workers.. The Court awards 10= per week for permanent workers. Add. fr 2d, mi hour for ro<m#K Tl« j .award, ia to for two XQXI*