THE ARBITRATION COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2431, 20 February 1909, Page 5

THE ARBITRATION COURT.

RESERVED JUDGMENTS DELIVERED.

[Press Association.]

DUNEDIN. Feb. 19

The Arbitration C'nnrt delivered so veral reserved judgments this morn ing. In the case. Inspector of Award, r. Morris and Co., the question, at issue was whether clause 17 of'th tailorosses’ award applied to oppren lieos. The Court held that the provisions did not apply only to the dr duct-ion an employer was entitled +< make from the wages of an apprentice for time lost through default of worker. The time lost for sicknesi was excluded, being specially provid ed for. The appeal was dismissed with costs in the case Wilson v. Alcrvyn, an appeal from a decision oi the Stipendiary Magistrate at Blacks, awarding the respondent £l5O compensation for incapacity caused by frost-bite. The case Harper v. Walker was an Invereargili claim for compensation for injuries sustained by falling from the roof of a building in course of construction. An award was made for a lump sum of £202 10s. to be distributed bv the Public Trustee. WELLINGTON, Feb. 10.

The President of the Arbitration Court, in a- written judgment, has ruled that a man employed solely as a mess-room steward is not a waiter within the meaning of the cooks’ and waiters’ award.

THE B UTCHERS’ AAYAR D

DUNEDIN, Feb. 19

In the Arbitration Court to-day. Air Justice Sim delivered an interpretation of the -butchers’ award, as follows: An employer may, if he pleases, employ a youth to do the work of a journeyman, provided lie pays him journeyman’s wages. It a youth is thus employed the employer is entitled to count him as a man in computing tho proportion of hoys to journeymen.