ARBITRATION COURT
INTERPRETATION OF AN AWABD. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Wednesday. The Arbitration Court to-day gave an interpretation of the Waterside Workers' award in regard to the difference between shovelling and trimming k handling coal. It was held that any place on a vessel where coal was stored, although only temporarily for the steamer's use, is a coal bunker, and all work done in an ordinary coal bunker is properly treated as trimming. In connection with the work done on the occasion of the alleged breach by the Union Steam Ship Company, the court held that the shovelling of coal from 'tween decks into the lower hold was not trimming, but the work done in the lower hold, arranging the coal, wag trimming within the meaning of the award. The company had committed a breach of the award in not paying three men a higher rate of wages, and the court ordered them to pay the costs, no penalty being imposed as the case was brought for an interpretation of' 1 the award,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 281, 20 April 1911, Page 5
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173ARBITRATION COURT Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 281, 20 April 1911, Page 5
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