ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 21 November 1907, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

Per Press Association. Napier, Last Night, fho Arbitration Court commenced its sittings to-day. In three cases employers, for breaches of the drivers' award, were fined £2. Back pay is to be refunded in one instance, in which an employee was fined £l. In several other eases of unintentional breaches of the drivers' and carpenters' awards the fees of the Court only were ordered to be paid in, though for breaches of the bakers' award a fine of £2 was imposed. In one, a breach of the carpentering award, for not having indentured an apprentice, a fine of £5 was imposed. In the compensation case Henry v the Napier Harbor Board, a widow's chum for the loss of the life of her husband m an accident when working on a dredge, an order was made that compensation to the amount of £3BO with costs £5 ss, be paid by respondents; £l2O to Ik- paid to the claimant and the balance, £240, to be paid to the Public Trustee to lie invested by him, and the capital and interest to be applied at his discretion for the benefit of the widow and child. Several other cases were dismissed.