ARBITRATION COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1704, 21 March 1906, Page 3

ARBITRATION COURT.

AWARDS GIVEN.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, last night,

To-day the Arbitration Court gives its award in a dispute between Weilington seamen and shipowners. The award is on the same terms as the one assessed recently at Dunedin, only a special clause is inserted, No. 44, which provides exemptions for owners of the steamers Ahuriri, Tangaroa, Euru, Fanny and Weka, provided they pay their employee's the wages which they are now paying, and’ so long as the conditions of the employment remains unaltered. The reasons for this award, it is stated, are the same as for an award made in the Otago and Southland districts on the 14th of February. Mr Slater’s dissent from the . conditions of that award applies also to this. The Court has ex* tended the conditional exemption granted to small vessels at Napier to others in the same position. It was stated that some of them occasionally traded to Wellington. When so trad* ing exemption will not, of course, apply- '

In the case of tho Wellington Drivors’ Union against tho city cab proprietors and various employers of drivers, it is stipulated that drivors of cabs and carriages shall work without payment of overtime 280 hours per month of four weeks, including Sunday work. The wages are to be £2 Ss per week. All time worked in excess of 280 hours in any month shall be compensated with time off or paid for at the end of the month. The award made in the case of the Palmerston North Gas Stokers’ and Cokers’ Union against Palmerston North Gas Co. states mainly that a Stokers’ shiftis tobe eighfhours, including time necessary for one meal. The minimum wages are to be 8s 6d per shift for stokers, and 7s per day of eight hours for lamp-lighters. Each employee is to be allowed one week’s , holiday on full pay during the year,