ARBITRATION COURT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1940, Page 4

ARBITRATION COURT

MR A. TYNDALL APPOINTED JUDGE MR JUSTICE O’REGAN’S NEW POST. SEPARATE COMPENSATION TRIBUNAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Mr Arthur Tyndall, Under- A Secretary of Mines and Director of State Housing, has been appointed judge of the Court of Arbitration in .succession to Mr Justice O’Regan, who is to be judge of the new Compensation Court. The present nominated assessors representing the employers and workers, Mr W. C. Prime and Mr A. L. Monteith, will be associated with Mr Tyndall on the Court of Arbitration. The new Compensation Court will be constituted by the judge sitting alone, and the change will become effective as from March 7. Making the above announcement yesterday, the Minister of Labour, Mr Webb, said that in accordance with provision made bj’ Parliament last session for the setting ’up of a separate Court to deal with workers’ compensation cases in order to relieve the present Court of Arbitration, and thus expedite the hearing of industrial cases, the necessary regulations establishing a Compensation Court had been gazetted. “Apart from the necessity of relieving the Court of Arbitration of compensation cases,” said Mr Webb, “the establishment of a separate Court will enable compensation claims to be expeditiously dealt with, and thus avoid rhe anxiety (frequently resulting in prolongation of the illness) to parties awaiting settlement of their cases. “Mr Justice O’Regan was appointed in June, 1937, to act as judge of the Arbitration Court during the absence through illness of the late Mr Justice Page, and appointed as permanent judge of the Arbitration Court on the death of Mr Justice Page in September of the same year. “Mr Tyndall has had a distinguished and varied career. He is qualified in law and engineering, and, in addition, has made a study of accountancy. Long experience as a civil engineer in charge of extensive construction works of all kinds has given him a most practical outlook and a knowledge of how to handle men. His executive capacity is proved in that he has concurrently administered the two Departments of Mines and Housing Construction and, in addition, since the outbreak of war, has acted as building controller and controller of mining production under the Ministry of Supply.” '