DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1925, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TEI.ECBArH — PRESS ASSN’., COPYRIGHT. ARBITRATION COURT DEFENDED. WELLINGTON. June 17. The statement made in a certain quarter recently that the Arbitration Court had blundered was refuted at to-day’s sitting hy Afr A. \\ . Croskery, secretary of the New Zealand Federation of Shop Assistants. •‘The Court has given every consideration to every application made before it.” declared Air Croskery. "and w'e have i--ued a protest against the statement made to the contrary. Every application that has come hero, in our oninion. has been dealt with very fairly on the evidence submitted. ’

Air .Justice Frazer: We tire very glad to have that assurance from you. It is the desire of all the memlters of the Court to deal lairlv and hilly with all matters that come heiore us, no matter from, whom they come. Sometimes it ntav appear that the Court- has not done tin- very best thing, lull it must tic guided hy the evidence before it at the time. Hus fact doc- not. appear lo he recognised hy everybody. In the light ol Intel knowledge, it might appear that another view might have been taken. H is all very well to he wise after the event.

"Although the Court might in one or two instances have conic to a different conclusi it had known everything that it has learnt, since, ’ his Honor added. "I think that in none of these cases lets the ( ourl given a decision not fully just Hied hi the evidence placed before it."

His Honor said that he interpreted the word “ blunder” as meaning an act committed stupidly and withoul full consideration ol' the inlormalion available. Within Hie meaning of the word he considered the Court had not blundered.

"However.” concluded his Honor, addressing Mr Croskery, “I am glad to know- that the party von represent, which has seen something of the work of the Court, is satislied that every care and attention lias been given.' .MUNICIPAL POLITICS WELLINGTON. June Is. The principal remits passed by the recent .Municipal Association s Conlcr-eiu-e were laid Indore the .Minister. Mr Bollard, by a deputation eon-isting of the Afayors of Wellington. Christchurch, Dunedin. Alastcrlon. Newmarket 1 , Palmerston North. Nelson and Invercargill. The drptilat inti laid -tress on the remits asking the Government: (a) To increase it- contributions to lire hoards; (b) To allow the expenses of Local Body Loans to lie paid our of loans; (e) To enable absent voters lo vote at local elections as they do at Parliamentary elections; t.d) lo empower the Main Highways Board to subsidise large Boroughs and ( tties; (e) To allow borough representation on the Alain Highways Board; it) To increase to tJO the amount which the local body member may sell lo a local body; (g) To legislate to provide that all local body banking accounts h<> t rcalci 1 as one account. It. a!-o was urged that, soldier ‘-oilier.-' land which had reverted lo the Crown ought not lo he exempt from rates. The Minister: T>n you expect the Government lo pass that! < Laughter!. The Al.inistcr promised careful consideration to all remits. A CDAI I'ANY’S TROUBLES. MAST Ell TON. June IS. As a result of a circular issued lo ilc -hsieholdors by the Directors of 11 -1 - Combined Butchers Ltd., alleging the preference shareholders' directors

were conducting the business of the company to the detriment of ordinary shareholders. A meeting was held here at which the case was heard from both side.-. C. B. Hobieson (Director) anil E. AY. Watts (until recently managing director) sponsored the circular, and F. Taylor (Chairman of Directors) defended the actions of the Board of Directors.

After a lengthy acrimonious debate, the following resolution was carried unanimously :—“That the AYairarapa shareholders having hoard the views of Messrs Taylor and Wallis (organising salesmen), on their actions re the conduct of the business, and having heard the views of two ordinary shareholders -Messrs Hobieson and Watts, resolve emphatically to endorse the action of the Wellington shareholder directors as outlined in the circular, and record their protest at the inequitable control of the company exercised hy the piett-r----ence shareholder directors, and recommend that Thomas Taylor he removed from his office of Director, and that the number of ordinary .shareholders be increased : and further Hint it be a recommendation to the meeting of shareholders to be belli at Wellington on June unless the preference shareholder-’ interests can he eliminated, and the control of the company he vested in directors elected by the orinary shareholders, with a view to placing the company on a sounder basis that the company go into voluntary liquidat ion.”