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Christchurch Tailors. Sib, — Board of Conciliation, Canterbury District, Christchurch, 22nd July, 1899. Christchuroh Tailoring Trade and Industrial Union of Workers and Messrs. Munday and Sons, T. Armstrong and Co., J. H. Parker and Co., Shaw, Robinson, and Co., and Working-men's Co-operative Society : I have to report that in the above cases the Board has been unable to bring about a settlement of the dispute. I have, &c, The Clerk of Awards, Supreme Court, Christchurch. A. H. Turnbull, Chairman. Christchurch Plumbers and Gasfitters. Sib, — Board of Conciliation, Canterbury District, Christchurch, 17th July, 1899. No. 206.—Christchuroh Plumbers and Gasfitters' Industrial Union and Messrs. Hement Brothers and others: I have to report that in the above case the Board has been unable to bring about any settlement of the dispute. ■ I am, &c, The Clerk of Awards, Supreme Court, Christchurch. A. H. Turnbull, Chairman. Christchurch Bakers and Pastrycooks. Sir, — Canterbury Board of Conciliation, Christchurch, 24th July, 1899. Canterbury Bakers and Pastrycooks' Union and others: I have to report that in the above case the Board has been unable to bring about any settlement of the dispute. I have, &c, The Clerk of Awards, Supreme Court, Christchurch. A. H. Turnbull, Chairman. Boot-manufacturers and Employes, Nelson. An Agreement made in pursuance of " The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1894," this 24th day of July, 1899, between the New Zealand Federated Boot Trade Industrial Association of Workmen (hereinafter called " the Workmen's Association "), of the one part, and the several persons, companies, and firms whose names are hereunto subscribed to this agreement (hereinafter called " the employers "), of the seoond part. Whereas, by an award in the Court of Arbitration of New Zealand, Otago and Southland Industrial Districts, made and published on the 9th day of September, 1898, in the matter of an industrial dispute between the New Zealand Federated Boot Trade Association of Workmen (therein called " the Workmen's Association ") and the New Zealand Boot-manufacturers' Industrial Union of Employers (therein called " the Employers' Union "), it was awarded that, as between the Workmen's Association and the members thereof, and the Employers' Union and the members thereof, that the terms, conditions, and provisions set out in the schedule of the said award should be binding upon the Workmen's Association and every member thereof, and upon the Employers' Union and every member thereof, and should be deemed to be incorporated in and to form part of the said award : And whereas the employers, parties hereto, of the second part, are not members of the New Zealand Boot-manufacturers' Union of Employers, and claim that the said award is not binding on them: And whereas an industrial dispute has arisen between the Workmen's Association and the employers, parties hereto, touching the same matters which were taken into consideration by the Court of Arbitration in the matter of the dispute between the Workmen's Association and the Employers' Union, and in respect to which the said award was made, and it has been agreed by and between the Workmen's Association and the employers, parties hereto, that this agreement shall be entered into as an industrial agreement made in the pursuance of the before-mentioned Act: Now it is hereby agreed between the Workmen's Association and every member thereof, and the employers, parties hereto, and each and every of them, in manner following, that is to say,— 1. That all and singular the terms, conditions, and provisions set out in the schedule to the said award shall be deemed to be the terms, conditions, and provisions of this agreement, and shall be binding upon the Workmen's Association and every member thereof, and the employers, parties hereto, and each and every of them, as and from the date hereof. 2. That the Workmen's Association and the members thereof, and the employers, parties hereto, and each and every of them, shall respectively do, observe, and perform every matter and thing which by the terms, conditions, and provisions of the said award and the schedule hereto are by the said award to be done, observed, and performed, or may be required to be done, observed, and performed, by the Workmen's Association and every member thereof, and by the Employers' Union and every member thereof respectively. 3. The failure by the parties hereto, or either or any of them, to observe and perform any matter or thing by the said terms, conditions, and provisions to be done, observed, and performed by either of the parties to the said award, and the doing of anything in contravention of the said terms, conditions, and provisions by either of the parties hereto, shall constitute a breach or breaches of this agreement within the meaning of the said Act. 4. A copy of the said award and of the schedule thereto, hereinbefore referred to, ia annexed to this agreement, and shall be deemed and taken by both parties to this agreement as forming a portion thereto, and to be incorporated in and form part of this agreement as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as if the same were set out in these presents instead of being merely annexed thereto. 5. If either party to this agreement shall in any particular commit or suffer a breach of this agreement, or of the said terms, conditions, and provisions of the said award, or any of them, such party shall forfeit and pay a penalty of , which shall be enforceable as provided in section 23 of " The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1894." 6. This agreement shall continue in force and binding on the parties hereto until the first day of September, one thousand nine hundred. As witness the hands of the parties— Adam Millar, Boot-manufacturer, Nelson. J. F. Arnold, For the New Zealand Federated Industrial Union of Workmen. Witness—J. Joyce, Clerk to A. Millar, Nelson.

Septembeb, 1899. The following are copies of the award of the Court of Arbitration in the bootmakers' dispute at New Plymouth; the recommendations of the Auckland Conciliation Board in the local butchers' and curriers' disputes; four judgments of the Arbitration Court in cases for breach of awards of the Court in the plumbers' dispute, the tailors' dispute, and the bakers' dispute (two cases); an agreement by four employers in Wellington to abide by the Arbitration Court's award in the boot trade dispute ; and an amendment to the recommendations of the Dunedin Conciliation Board in the seamen's dispute : —■ Bootmakers' Dispute. In the matter of an industrial dispute between the Auckland Operative Bootmakers' Industrial Union of Workmen and Hal Goodacre, of New Plymouth, in the Industrial District of Taranaki, boot-manufacturer. This Court having taken into consideration the matter of the above-mentioned dispute, and having heard the Auckland Operative Bootmakers' Industrial Union of Workmen (hereinafter called "the Workmen's Union") by their representatives duly appointed, and having also heard the above-named Hal Goodacre in person, and also