DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1929, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

POWERS CHALLENGED. ARBITRATION COURT ORDER. (By Telegraph- -Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 9. 'ln an appeal case, Butt and others v. Fraser and others, Mr Stevenson, for plaintiffs submitted that the Arbitration Court had gone beyond its jurisdiction in making the order complained of. The Court might give preference to unionists, hut could not prevent non-unionists from working. The Court had no power to (force any person to join a union against his will. The Arbitration Court had no statutory authority to deal with the relations of employers afe between themselves, nor with relations of the workers as between themselves, nor with the relations between workers and the workers’ union, hut could deal with the relations between employers and workers only. The relations affected by the order objected to were not relations between the employers and workers. The history of the Arbitration Acts showed that Parliament never intended . to confer on the Court power to establish compulsory unionism. - ! Mr Ongley, for defendants, contended that the Arbitration Court had kept within its jurisdiction, and that the Supreme Court could not interfere. The matter being an industrial dispute within the meaning of the Arbitration ‘Act that Court could deal with it .in any manner it thought, fit, immune from-interference by? any other Cpujjt£.j The Court reserved decision. 5...

ASSAULT CHARGE. j WELLINGTON, July 10. Hugh Mayne, aged 58, was to-day .charged with assault, causing bodily harm to Walter Green. He was fined £lO, . the half of this to go to Green. : Mayne and another lodger, both very-drunk, locked out their landlady, who then appealed to Green, a neighbour. He opened the door. Mayne then rushed him and stabbed him on the. leg with a pocket knife. The Magistrate, Mr Page, said that Mayne’s drunkenness was a voluntary act, and therefore he was responsible for his actions while drunk. BODY IDENTIFIED. WELLINGTON, July 11. The body of the woman found on the beach on Monday at Maraka Bay has been identified as that of Frances Elizabeth Frith, aged 33, who was employed at the Royal Oak Hotel. CLAY BIRD CHAMPIONSHIP. HASTINGS, July 11. The New Zealand Clay Bird Championship title was at stake this morn- ' ing when a large number entered. The conditions generally were satisfactory. At the end of the ninth round .fifteen shootists had recorded all hits. There were seventeen with one miss.

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF. . SUBSIDY REQUESTED WELLINGTON, July 11. A request Ifor a pound for pound subsidy on unemployment relief expenditure by the four principal local authorities of the Dominion, instead of merely the cost of labour as tit present, was submitted to the Prime Minister this morning by the Mayors, of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. Alternative suggestions for State aid were also suggested. Sir Joseph Ward repudiated the obligation on the Government to provide for the relief of unemployment, but promised Cabinet would give consideration to the representations. He referred to’the need for Parliament to consider a national scheme for meeting the problem. OAMARU’S FUND. OAMARU, July 11. The Mayor to-day transmitted to the Central Committee the second instalment of £SOO to the Earthquake Fund. The total is now nearly thirteen hundred, including £436 collected by the “Oamaru Mail.”