Arbitration Court.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April 6. In Hie Arbitration Court addresses -cere heard in connection with the mokl«mh:rs' dispute, in which cviti* uce was taken lust January. W. J« jiinksheur und 11. Douglas spoko on •wlmlf of Hie employers and W, .vuugiiton for the employees. Tho ..ourt slated it will endeavour to do its award as soon as possible. vi the conclusion of the business Mr Justice Chapman said that apart rom two cases takvu to-duy there aunultied only two unpublished a,\urds to be filed. These will be disioscU of before the court leaves Wel.ingtoii. The court is due at Auck.ind at as early a date as possible. There is a considerable accumulation >f business from the chief centres, i-ml in order to do justice to the intercut districts the court finds it impossible to undertake to complcley clear the last in each centre at a ingle sitting. It is proposed in the list, instance to tuko all Auckland -msiness iilcd up to llccemher ;!l s t, !!K»y ; and then to treat other dist■icls in the siinui way, returning as .0011 as possible to each centre to icur oil whut is left on ,tha flrad i.'-it. These arrangements, however, ■ie subject to certain qualifications* ■ I is nut worth while to divide tflorceineiit eases in this way, and if .lossible -they will be cleared oU to lie unle for which'the sitting was lixod. Tim court will emlmivoUE tQ rent compensation cases in the mine way, recognising Hint Uie death >r absence of a witness in this class 'I case may have serious consequents, in the minor centres the court -nay stay to clear the whole list. those localities will be visited in flich order as may be found roost ■onvenient according to their geographical situation. "These arrangements, concluded his Honour, "arc the fairest we.can make, und they must he understood to bo subject to tmloreseoii contiuueiides.''
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 79, 7 April 1904, Page 2
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317Arbitration Court. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 79, 7 April 1904, Page 2
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