ARBITRATION COURT

Evening Star, Issue 22453, 25 September 1936, Page 14

ARBITRATION COURT

AUCKLAND’S SIX WEEKS' SESSION COMPLETED [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 24. _ After a session occupying almost six weeks and involving the hearing of a number of compensation eases and many industrial disputes the members of the Arbitration Court .left Auckland tonight for Hamilton. During the sitting industrial disputes of a major character were heard at Auckland for the first time since 1932. At Hamilton the court will hear workers’ compensation cases, and from there it will go to Rotorua to take evidence which is to bo submitted in support of the application to amend the New Zealand passenger transport drivers’ award with reference to tli6 40-hour week. The court is due at vv ellington on Tuesday to hear the Dominion bakers and pastrycooks dispute ; and from Wellington it will go to Grcymouth, being due there on October 2 to begin its West Coast session. It will return to Wellington in time to begin on October 19 one of the most important cases it has to deal with, the basic wage. Further fixtures will be made at Wellington. , Some of the decisions for the Auckland hearings have not yet been ieleased, duo to pressure of work on the court. They will he published by the court as opportunity occurs.-