DRIVERS’ AWARD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 115, 13 April 1940, Page 4

DRIVERS’ AWARD

COURT'S DECISION. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 12. ’ The decision of Air Gilmour, .S.M., delegate of the Court of Arbitration, concerning Ins meaning of the words “town and country’'’ in a clause of the New Zealand passenger transport drivers’ award was upheld by the Court, when a reserved decision was delivered by Air .justice Tyndall today. The appellant union, when the hearing came before the Court earlier in the week appealed against the decision of the Industrial Magistrate and submitted that he had misdirected himseli as to the meaning of these words. The company concerned in the dispute operates a passenger service' between Palmerston North, Eeikling, I) oxton, Shannon and Poluiilgina. “The Court concurs in the arguments which led the delegate of the Court to reach his finding,” said Air Justice Tyndall in his written judgment. “The advocate for the .union cited the decision of the Supremo Court in Hall v. the Wellington Express Company, Ltd., 1932, to justify lii.s claim that the services controlled by the respondent company were suburban services. The Court of Arbitration, however, is unanimously of the opinion that a motor vehicle service running from Wellington to Palmerston North or from Palmerston North to Feilding is not a suburban service.”