ECHO OF STRIKES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 348, 8 May 1928, Page 13

ECHO OF STRIKES

PUKEMIRO COLLIERIES APPEAL Appealing against the decision of the Magistrate’s Court at Huntly the Pukemiro Collieries were represented at the Arbitration Court this morning by Mr. M. Myers, K.C. Appellants, who had claimed £ 200 damages for alleged breach of agreement in the question of strikes, by the Pukemiro Coalmine Workers’ Industrial Union of Workers, had been nonsuited by the decision of Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., at Huntly. The question at issue was mainly one of whether an agrement made in 1926 had been correctly filed. Mr. P. J. O'Regan appeared for respondents. Holding that the agreement made between appellants and respondents two years ago was binding, Mr. Myers inferred that the Huntly decision had been based on an early Act which made the filing of industrial agreements mandatory. A later Act of 1913 read. “ . . . the agreement it may be filed” not ‘“shall” be filed as was the case in the earlier Act. Mr. Wyvern Wilson had based his decision on the “intention of the legislature.” Mr. Myers considered the wording of the section to be tolerably plain, in which case it was manifestly wrong to allow conjecture to influence a decision. (Proceeding.)