ARBITRATION COURTS.
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By Telegraph—Press Association,
PALMER STON N., last Night. The Arbitration Court concluded its sittings to-day. The first 'case was an appeal against a decision,of Mr Thomson, S.M., in the case of Charles Lennox, flaxmiller, of Foxton. for employing men after one o'clock on Saturday. The Magistrate held that-, the clause of the Award need not necessarilv apply to piece workers. Against this decision the Flax Workers' Union appealed. Judgment was reserved.^ The chief business was the hearing of an application form the shearing shed hands for an award. At present there is no award governing these hands. They sought to bring in an award similar in many respects to the shearers' award, and making the minimum wace £2 and ration's. Against this the SheeDowners Federation of New Zealand proposed a counter award in which pressors are to receive 27s 6d and other shed workers 25s and found. The owners held that ' the men's claim amounted to £2 15s. per week, and included Maori girls and
youths. The owners also .desire all owners who shear less than 2500.sheep v to be excluded from the award'; that the employers have a right to require shed hands" to fill in their spare time performing other duties than those connected with'shearing operations or shed work; also that members of employers families, permanent employers/ or children of Maori parentage under 16 years, be not affected by the award; also that youths and Maori girls may lw> employed at eighteen years of ago for 15s per week, over eighteen and nndfv twenty at 20s per, week, and board and lodging: and Cooks. 35s '■'■ All these clauses aro. opposed by Mr Lnracy.ou.behalf of the Union. , Messrs H. Niveus,. a Walraraba .mem- . . \ ber of,tbe Council of;Federated;Sheep-' owners, and H. T). Acland (Christ- i church) gave evidence for the sheep-J owners, for whom Mr Pryor conducted . the easel.
Judgment was reserved
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10194, 22 March 1911, Page 5
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315ARBITRATION COURTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10194, 22 March 1911, Page 5
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