ARBITRATION LAW

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1938, Page 8

ARBITRATION LAW

CRITICISM OF SECOND COURT. DEPARTURES FROM PRACTICE ALLEGED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Criticism of the Second Court of Arbitration on the grounds of its alleged departure from established practice is a feature of the annual report of the Canterbury Employers’ Association. The report, presented to' members by the president (Mr A. 'E. Kincaid) slates that representations made by the Employers’ Federation to the Government in opposition to the establishment of a second Arbitration Court in such a small country as New Zealand have been justified. “The Second Court was thrown into its work in the midst of the largest accumulation of industrial disputes which have ever had to be dealt with in New Zealand,” it is stated, “and during at least the first six months of its existence this Court has unfortunately departed from the established practice and policy of previous Courts in many of the major industries of the country. It has shown a tendency recently to have a more clearly defined policy, based to some extent, at least, on the Court's policy of the past.’ However repercussions of its departures from policy and its somewhat inconsistent judgments are still with us, and will be for many years."