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The employers, and each and every of them, shall be bound by and shall henceforth observe and keep all the provisions of an award made by the Court on the 17tb day of February, 1898, in a dispute between the union and the employers therein named (a duplicate of which award was filed in the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Wellington District, at Wellington, on the 23rd day of February, 1898, as No. 127) as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as if the employers and each and every of them had been originally parties to the dispute wherein the said award was made ; and that as between the union and ihe members thereof, and the employers and each and every of them, the terms, conditions, and provisions of the said award shall be deemed to be, and they are hereby, incorporated in and declared to form part of this award, and shall be binding upon the union and upon every member thereof, and upon the employers and each and every of them, as fully and effectually as though the same were herein set forth at length ; and, further, that the union, and every member thereof, and the employers and each and every of them, shall respectively do, observe, and perform every act, matter, ar d thing by the terms, conditions, and provisions of the said award required to be done, observed, and performed on the part of the union, and of the members thereof, and of the employers therein named respectively, and shall not do anything in contravention of the said terms, conditions, and provisions, but shall in all respects abide by, observe, and perform the same. And the Court doth hereby further award, order, and declare that any breach by the union, or the members thereof, or by the employers, or any of them, of the said terms, conditions, and provisions set out in the said award shall constitute a breach of this award, and that the sum of £100 shall be the maximum penalty payable by any party or person in respect of any such breach : Provided always (as provided by the 3rd section of " The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1898 ") that the aggregate amount of penalties payable under or in respect of this award shall not exceed the sum of £500. And the Court doth further order that this award shall take effect as from the day of the date thereof, and shall continue in force up to and until the expiry of the said award of the 17th day of February, 1898. And the Court doth further order that a duplicate of this award be filed in the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Wellington District, at Wellington. And the Court doth, lastly, order that each of them, the said Allen Macguire, Priddy and Muir, and Joshua Heard, shall pay to the union in respect of its costs of the reference the sum of one guinea. In witness whereof the seal of the Court hath been hereunto affixed, and the President of the Court hath here unto set his hand, this 10th day of July, 1899. W. B. Edwards, President. Wellington Painting Trade. In the Court of Arbitration of New Zealand, Wellington Industrial District.—ln the matter of " The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1894," and the amendments thereof; and in the matter of an industrial dispute between the Wellington Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators' Industrial Union of Workers (hereinafter called " the Workers' Union "), and the Wellington Master Painters' Industrial Union of Employers (hereinafter called " the Employers' Union "), and the following master painters and decorators—namely : Robert Martin, Manners Street; James Evans, 133, Cuba Street; Richard Tingey, Manners Street; William Tustin, Willis Street; George Godber, Willis Street; George Jackson. Cuba Street; Thomas Hull, Molesworth Street; William Jennings, Unper Willis Street; Alfred Parker, Cuba Street;. William Nicol, Courtenay Place; William Brodrick, Broadway Terrace ; Joseph Kitchen, Broadway Terrace ; Robert Carpenter, Taranaki Street; Thomas Amos, Cambridge Terrace ; Thomas Uridge, Tory Street; Arthur Rogers, Tory Street; William Brady, Courtenay Place; James McAlpine, Nairn Street; William Bathurst, Adelaide Road; Thomas Scraggs, Adelaide Road ; Robert Mann, Russell Terrace, Newtown; William McColloch, Walter Street; John Tinney, Molesworth Street; George Hastings, Thorndon; Stephen Gladden, Riddiford Street; Robert Robin, Murphy Street; Thomas Avery, Sussex Square ; Charles Pearce, Brooklyn ; Arthur E. Mills, Ohiro Road ; Watkins and Taylor, Tasman Street; Atkinson and Taylor, Adelaide Road ; Thomas Wilson, Martin Square ; James Smith, Polhill Gully ; Joseph Tustin, Worser Bay ; Charles Fox, Taranaki Street; Samuel Roberts, Barker Street; AlexanderLawson, Cuba Street; David Owen, York Street; Emil Balmuller, 14, Featberstone Street; John Daige, Brooklyn; John Bloom, Abel Smith Street; John Bailey, Karori; John Cotton, 20, Drurnmond Street; George Price, Newtown Avenue ; Crump and Hawthorne, off Kent Terrace ; Robert Keene, Grey Street; Peter McComisky, Drurnmond Street; George Daryal, Panama Street; George Hall, Main Street; Peter Burke, care of Myers, Builder, Taranaki Street; Fred Butler, Adelaide Road; John Ballinger, Hankey Street; Robert Garnham, Marama Crescent; Thomas Ricks, Newtown Avenue; Alexander Clarke, Bade Street, Newtown; John Cannon, Taranaki Street; Robert Stanridge, Molesworth Street; Louis Banks, Petone ;T. C. Peers, Berhampore ; Charles Williams, Ohiro Road, Brooklyn; Alfred Tiegue, Alma Lane; Alfred Matthews, care of Hunter, Tobacconist, No. 1, Courtenay Place ; Tom Ironmonger, care of Mr. Kibblewhite, Petone; Henry Short and Ernest Dockery, 10, Kent Terrace and Brooklyn (hereinafter called " the employers "). The Court of Arbitration of New Zealand (hereinafter called " the Court "), having taken into consideration the matter of the above-mentioned dispute, and having heard the Workers' Union by its representatives duly appointed, and having also heard the Employers' Union by its representatives duly appointed, and having also heard the abovenamed James McAlpine in person, and having also heard the witnesses called by and on behalf of the Workers' Union, and of the Employers' Union, and of the said James McAlpine respectively, and cross-examined by the said parties respectively, doth hereby order and award that, as between the Workers' Union and the members thereof and the Employers' Union and the members thereof, and 8s between the Workers' Union and the members thereof and each of the employers separately above named, the terms, conditions, and provisions set out in the schedule hereto and of this award shall be binding upon the Workers' Union and upon every member thereof, and upon the Employers' Union and upon every member thereof, and upon the employers and each and every of them, and that the said terms, conditions, and provisions shall be deemed to be, and they are hereby, incorporated in and declared to form part of this award. And, further, that the Workers' Union and every member thereof, and the Employers' Union and every member thereof, and the employers and each and every of them, shall respectively do, observe, and perform every matter and thing by this award and by the said terms, conditions, and provisions respectively required to be done, observed, and performed, and shall not do anything in contravention of this award or of the said terms, conditions, and provisions, but shall in all respects abide by, and observe, and perform the same. And the Court doth hereby further award, order, and declare that any breach of the said terms, conditions, and provisions Bet out in the schedule hereto shall constitute a breach of this award, and that the sum of £100 shall be the maximum penalty payable by any party or person in respect of any such breach : Provided, however (as provided by the 3rd section of " The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1898"), that the aggregate amount of penalties payable under or in respect of this award shall not exceed the sum of £500. And this Court doth further order that this award shall take effect from the 15th day cf July, 1899, and shall continue in force until the 14th day of July, 1901. And this Court doth further order that a duplicate of this award shall be filed in the Supreme Court of New Zi aland, Wellington District, at Wellington. In witness whereof the seal of the Court bath been hereunto put and affixed, and the President of the Court hath hereunto set his hand, this 10th day of July, 1899. W. B. Edwards, President. The Schedule above referred to. 1. Hours of Employment. —The recognised hours of work shall be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on five days of the week, and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays, one hour to be allowed each day for dinner (Saturday exoepted) from the Ist day of September to the 30th day of April, both inclusive, and from the Ist day of May to the 31st day of August, from 8 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. on five days in the week, and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, one half-hour to be allowed each day for dinner (Saturday excepted). 2. Wages. —All journeymen painters, paperhangers, glaziers, grainers, and decorators, and all other journeymen working at any branch of the trade (except those hereinafier mentioned), shall be paid not less than Is. 3d. per hour, 3. Any journeyman who considers -himself net capable of earning the minimum wage may be paid such less wage as Bhall from time to time be agreed upon in writing between such journeyman and the chairman and secretary

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