ARBITRATION COURT AWARDS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8063, 20 March 1906, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT AWARDS.

I I'ISR WIESS ASSOCIATION Wellington, March 19. Tho Arbitration Court to-day gave its ' award in the dispute between the Wellington section of the Australasian Federated Seamen's Union aud tke Shipowner. The award is in the same terms as the one issued recently at Duuediu, The only special clause is No. 45 which provides exemptions for owners of the steamers Ahuriri, Tangaroa, Hum, Pamy and Weka, provided they pay their employees the wages which they are now paying, aud so long as Ike conditions of employment remain unaltered, Tke reasons for tkis award, it is stated, are tke same as for the award made iu the Otago and Southland district on the 14th Pebru.

ary, Mr Slater's dissent from the eon. ditions of that award applies also to this. Tlie Court has extended the conditional exemption granted to small vessels at Napier, anil to others in (| le same position. f( was stated thai some of these occasionally trade lo Wellington. When so trading, the exemption will not, of course, apply. In the case of the Wellington Driver's Union against; the City Cab proprietors, and various employers of drivers, it is stipulated that drivers ol cubs and carriages shall work- without payment of overtime, 280 hoars per month of four weeks, including Sunday work. Wages are to be C2 os per week; all lime worked in excess of 28il hours in any month shall be compensated with time oil', or paid for it at i the end of the month.

The award made in the case of the Palmerston Xorlh Gas Stokers and Cokers Union, against the Pahnorstoi) North Gas Company states mainly that stokers shifts are lo be eight hours, including time necessary for one meal j minimum wages are to be 8s Gd per shift for stokers, and 7s per day of .'ight hours for lamplighters. Each employee is lo be allowed ouo week's wliday ou full pay during the year,

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