AN EMPTY CONCLUSION.
The right to demand an award, it seems to us, remarks • the "Lyttelton Times," implies an obligation on the part of the tribunals to make an awai'd, even if it is only a confirmation of existing conditions. But the Arbitration Court has taken a different view. It has declined to take action in regard to the greatest and most important industry of the province, viz., the farming industry. It has apparently been appalled by the very magnitude of the industry. It has confessed itself impotent to discharge the duty for which it was created. It has taken upon itself to limit the scope of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act in defiance of Parliament. . . . We realise that the Arbitration Act has suffered a grave reverse, almost a disaster, and we are anxious not to enhance the danger by a single unrestrained or angry word. That the Court itself should have struck this blow is the sad.ie3t feature of the position.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9183, 4 September 1908, Page 4
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163AN EMPTY CONCLUSION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9183, 4 September 1908, Page 4
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