NEW COURT SITTING TO-DAY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 54, 26 November 1937, Page 14

NEW COURT SITTING TO-DAY

— Preas Aasociation.)

Informal Conference of Both Tribunals HeH FREEZING WORKS DISPUTE

(By Telegrraph-

AUCKLAND, Last Night. The first sitting of the sfccond Courl of Arbitration will commence tomorrow. The newly-appointed judge, Mr. Hunter, and his associates, Messrs. W, E. Anderson (employers' representative) and A. W. Oroskery (workers' representa'tive) will consider the batters' diapute. Questions xelating- to internal organisation were considered * at an informal conference of both Courts. In a subsequent announcement it waistated that now that Parliament had autliorised the second court it was consider ed desirable that a definite terminology should be adopted witb a view to distinguishing the twc courts. It had been decided, ac cordingly, that they should be desig nated respectively as the "Court oi Arbitration" and the "second Courl of Arbitration."

It wenlt without saying, of course, that both were of equal jurisdiction, but for the purposfs of convenience it was necessary that there should be.a recognised designation for each. "With respect to the sittings of the two courts, arrangements will be made from time to - time and necessary arrangements as to times and places made by the judge of the Court of Arbitration as heretofore," the statement continued. "A practice has grown up of designating the judge as president of the court, while the two nominated members are frequently referred to as assessors. In point of fact, however, this terminology is inaccurate. The tribunal consists of a judge and two nominated members. The judge is cor- . rectly designated the judge of. the Arbitration Court, but his eolleagues are equally members of the court. They are correctly referred to as employers' and workers' representatives respectively, but they are not assessors. "The term asssessors is properly applicable pnly to members of a tribunal under the chairmanship of a conciliation commissioner appointed to deal with industrial dispu'tes in the first in» stance." The statement added that it has been decided to hear the .Domihion freeaing workers' dispute, one of the most important on the list, at Auckland on December 13 and. 14. It has not yet been decided which court will hear the case.