ARBITRATION COURT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10497, 7 December 1911, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT

SOME INTERESTING C/.3ES.

(By Tekgrfiph — I'ress Association.)

WELLINGTON, Last Night, The- Arlteratkni. Cburt concluded its last sitting for the..yeair. to-day, Mr Justice i.l.'m presiding, with hilm Messrs R. Scott and J. A. McCullough, employers' and' workers' j ref.'Pe&eiitativie® respectively, in tlw ! case hi- whidh the Inspector of Aw-| ard« sought to recover from the Wellington Gas. Company a penality fjor uni a'Heged breach of the carpenters' award .by empSoyiwg a carpenter ait Mikama'r outdde the two mile racfcius ( from the city without paying for the t£mc< occupied in travelling io aad fro, tho Cburt held" that the Oompany was not carrying on. a buMug Inusiinesß within, the meaning of the award. Tho Company was engaged in. the manufacture and safe of gas :i,t Mfrainnir, and any building work it did wa incidental: to its maim bu.vuwe'fes. Judgment was given for ■ the defendant. Mr MuCulilmi-gh did ] not concur im. the judgir.ont, comsid- i erinig that the company carried on] business in Wellington. The inspect- i tor proceeded against the Mii.rairtaV Borcnigh Cfouim'rl for employing an: employee to erect picket fences, the man not being a member of the Gairpenter's Union, and was not paid the award rate of-wages. Judgment ! was- reserved. Edward Oharmiam. elainued £7 lis 6d compßnstatioJi for an accident and medical expenses, from Charles Emery, hiis employer. The plaintiff was doing postering work, and in the course of his em: ploymen't stooped down, and struck n projectling beam, which caused'injury lc«dtii)|g to an abscess, wliiiph had necessitated -two operations. The defence was that no notice of tilie accMeJi.t had been- givepi. The Oo\irt held that tllic<re was no answer, and gave Judgment for £7 -Is 6d and costs," am) item for 7s- 6d> for medical certifLc'ato lxiing disavowed.