ARBITRATION LAW

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9851, 1 November 1924, Page 2

ARBITRATION LAW

PROPOSED APPEAL ERG AI AIAGI3I GATE'S DECISIONS.

WELLINGTON, Oct. SO

The Industrial, Conciliation and. A.rbitratiou Amendment Bill, which was brought down in the House tc-dav, proposes to amend the provisions of the principal Act relating to appeals from Magistrates to.the Court of Arbitration .

The principal clause of the new Bill states that any party to any such action may appeal to the Court of Arbitration against the judgment of a Magistrate on any matter of fact where the amount of the claim exceeds £5 am! on a point of law, with the leave of the Magistrate, where tho amount of the claim does not exceed £5 and without such leave in any other case.

Another clause in the Bill provides that in the case of an application for an award the statement of the respondents, admitting claims or making counter proposals, shall lie lodged with the commissioner not inter than ten clear days before the hearing of the dispute. —Spffical.

SHIPPING. BILL ~.<> OVERSEAS TRADERS Ai.UST CARRY WIRELESS.

WELL INTON, Oct. 31

The Hun. G. J. Anderson moved the second reading of the Shipping and Seamens Amendment Bill, winch, lie said, gave the Government power to insist on ships trading to New Zealand to carry wire'ess apparatus for sending and receiving wireless messages.

Air Eraser welcomed the Bill ns a real step forward in the matter of saving human I’fo. This, however, did not exhaust the necessity for legislation amending the Shipping and Seamen's Act one thing they should guard against was that crews cf oil burning ships were not reduced be'ow the safety line ar.d that ample hands should he employed to man boats.

Mr Milford stressed the necessity for seeing that sending sets installed on ships were of sufficient power to send messages beyond a few miles. Sending*was quite a different matter from receiving.

Mr Montoith corn pin "yd that too much d’serebion was leit to the Minister and not .sufficient was definitely laid down hy Parliament.

Tho Minister, in reply, said that he had looked into the question of the manning of oil-burning steamers and he was advised by his experts that they were carrying sufficient crows. Caro would be token to see that ships carried a sending installations of sufficient power. The Bill was passed with an amendment. moved hy the Minister, .increasing the fine for a breach of the regulations relating to wireless from £SO .to £2SO.—P.A.