INACCURATE AWARDS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 82, 23 April 1937, Page 10

INACCURATE AWARDS

Telegfrupli ■ Rreos AssQnisHon.i

Magistrate's Comment on Rotorua Case POPULATION VARIATIONS

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ROTORUA, Last Night, I "The trouble is that these people goj I .along and make these inelastic, cumber-: ! isome and inaccurate awards and then, rexpect thq Qourts. to interpret them, ' ' jsaid Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M,, at the Rotorua Magistrate's Court to-day dur* ing the course of the hearjng of a case inyolving an alleged breaeh of the New] Zealand Typqgraphieal Workers" Award. . Thp Pepartmenf pf Lahou? claimed! '£L0 penalty frqm the publishers of tbe Roforpa Mqrning Post on thp grounds. that they. had.emBloyed mqn at lesa than thq minimum rates fixed for printing establishment employees in townp of mqre than 60QD population. Befendanta contended that although. the last census had ghown the population of Rotorua at 6531, their information was that it was only 5494 which they claimed entitled "them to pay wagds for toWns over 3,000 and under 6000 population. They contended that a large nuihber of visitors, estimated bv the , Gqyernpipnt ' statisti'eian at 1237, were in Rotorua at thp time qf taking the census and these" shqujd pot he pom sidered as forming part of the pqpulatipn for the purposes qf thq award. The Magistrate, who reserved his decision, said that a definition of population appearpd to be very necessary in •fche award, At present it was most inelastie and cumbersome* • '