ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 95, 18 May 1909, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Clisbome, Monday. The Arbitration Court, iu giving an award in the painters' dispute, points out that when the award expires it :'s no use coming before the Court for increases unless actual' evidence can bo adduced of a change in the conditions, l.t is nut the function of the Court to go on ciullctisly revising ■particulars of industry. Former awards must be treated as settling the matter till clear -proof is available that an alteration is ncedel.

SITTING OF TUB COXCILATTOX COUNCIL. Auckland, Last Night, At a sitting of the Conciliation Council to-day, an agreement was arrived at, after considerable diseus'sion, in regard r to n dispute in the butchering trade, •The final points in dispute had reference to wages, preference to unionists and the half-holiday. A compromise wan arrived at in regard to the wages. After a protracted sitting an agreement iwas arrived at in regard to the other points. A hearty vote of thanks was passed to the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr Harle Giles), the representatives of each side stating that no .settlement would have been arrived at had it not been for .Mr. Giles' services. The Cuminii.nio.ier, in acknowledging the vote, stated that this was dim "toughest dispute" he had yet had to deal with.