ARBITRATION COURT.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 23 March 1926, Page 4

ARBITRATION COURT.

WORKERS’ REPRESENTATIA r E. I»y Telegraph—Press Association. AVELLINGTON, March 22. Air A. L. Alonteith, an ex-M.P., has been appointed tho workers’ representative on the Arbitration Court, replacing Air Hiram Hunter. Tlie numerical result of the ballot is not announced. Mr Alonteith will probably take up his duties at tho next sitting of tho Court at Napier. Mr AV. E. Sill has been reappointed the emergency workers’ representative. Air Alexander Lammont Alonteith was horn at AA’oodville in 1886, and is consequently forty years of age. He was educated at Newtown, Wellington. For ten years he resided at Shannon, and was a storeman in AYellington -fcill 1915. During this period he became secretary of the storemen’s Union and began to take a very active part in Union matters. Later he became secretarv to the New Zealand Tramway Employees’ Federation and also became a member of the Executive of the Labour Party. At the general election of 1919 he stood in thejJLabour interest for Wellington East, against the sitting Reform member. Dr A. K. Nowman but suffered defeat. Ere the next e'cction Dr Newman withdrew from the Lower House, and at tho general election Air Alonteith won the seat for the Labour Party. At the last general election he suffered defeat at tne hands of the Rerorm candidate, Air 1. I’orsyth, who won by u margin of approximately 1000 votes. ,