ARBITRATION COURT AWARD.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7999, 20 March 1906, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT AWARD.

By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 19.

The Arbitration Court, to-day, gave its award in the dispute between the Wellington section of the Australasian Federated Seamen's Union and the shipowners. The award is in the same terms as the one issued recently at Dunedin. The only special clause is Clause 45, whioh provides exemptions for the owners of the steamers Ahuriri, Taagaroa, JRuru, Fanny, and Weka, provided they pay their employees the wages whioh they are now paying, and so long as the conditions of employment remain unaltered. The reasons for this award, it is stated, are the same as for the award made in the Otago and Southland districts ou February 14th. Mr Slater's dissent from the conditions of that award applies also to tdis Court, and has extended the conditional exemption granted to small vessels at Napier to others in the same position. It was stated that some of these occasionally trade to Wellington, and when so trading exemption will not, of course, apply. In the case of the Wellington Drivers 1 Union against the city cab proprietors and the various employers ofdiivers.it is stipulated that the drivers of cabs and carriages shall work without payment of overtime 280 hours per month of four weeks, including Sunday work. The wages are to be £2 5s per week. All time worked in excess of 280 hours in any month shall bo compensated with time off. or paid for at the end of the month. The award made iu the case) of the Palmerston North Gas Stokers and Cokers' Union against the Palmerston North Gas Company, states mainly that the stokers'shift is to be eight hours, including time ne pessary for one meal. The minimum wages are to be 8s 6d per a shift for stokers and 7s per day of eight houia for lamp-lighters. Each employee is to be allowed one week's holiday on full pay during the year.