ARBITRATION COURT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9103, 24 March 1908, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

Press Association. Wellington, March 23. . At the Arbitration Court sitting to-day, a number of parties were attached to tiie following award Wellington timber yard, cook and waiters (hotels and restaurants) and carpenters and joiners. R. A. Wakelyn, charged with a breach of the bricklayers’ award by employing a nqn-uniouist when a unionist was available, was fined £lB and costs.

Charles Brown proceeded against the Union Steamship Company for £3OO compensation for injury sustained while employed by the company in lumping coal from a hulk to the s.s. Warrimoo. It was shown that he was knocked off a plank, falling between two vessels, and sustaining a fracture of the pelvis, and other, in juries, and was thereby totally incapacitated. Since the accident he had received £76 4s (half wages) in respect of the injury during his period of incapacity. The company did not contest the claim beyond raising the question as to the advisability of a lump sum. The company was willing to pay in accordance with the Court’s award. The Court awarded £2OO, which was conisdered to be reasonable under the circumstances.

Costs"were allowed in the case of Wm. Watson, bootmaker, who claimed £1 15s per week from Potter and Son, boot importers of Wellington. This case was an unusual one. On September 25th, 1906, the claimant, while pulling the heel off a boot with a pair of nippers, jarred one of his hands through the nippers slipping. It was alleged that a tubercular condition of the palm of the hand was set up as the result of jarring; that he had been temporarily or totally incapacitated from work; and that it would be considerable, permanent, or partial incapacity. The sum of £1 5s per week was claimed during the period of incapacitation. When the case was called, it was announced that a mutual agreement had been arrived at, and an order was made in accordance therewith. AN UNANNOUNCED POSTPONEMENT. CAUSES GREAT INCONVENIENCE.

Wanganui, Mrach 24. A number ot employers cited to appear before the Arbitration Court here to-day were considerably inconvenienced and annoyed to find that there was no sitting of the Court. One employer had journeyed fifty miles necessitating the loss of two days, and was put to considerbale expense. No official intimation bf any kind had been sent to parties cited, about the postponement of the Court.