LABOR MATTERS.
RAILWAY SERVANTS’ SOCIETY. [Per Press Association.] WESTPORT, July 16. The following resolution was passevl at a meeting of the Westport branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants: “That this branch considers the acting-Minister of Railways in vetoing the decision of the Railway Appeal Board, to be inconsistent with true democracy, and opposed to the spirit of Liberalism which his .Government is supposed to symbolise.” A COMPENSATION CASE. ‘ CHRISTOHURCH, July 16. , At tile Arbitration Court to-day Mr Justice Sim delivered judgment in the compensation case of Powell v. Gordon Holmes. The. Court found no reajson to accept claimant’s version of the matter in preference to that of respondent. The onus of providing that a claim had been made lay, with the claimant, who had failed to satisfy the. Court that a claim had! been made within the moaning of the statute. The application, was dismissed. Claimant wa oilicred to pay respondent’s costs, five guineas, with disbursements, and witnesses’ expenses, fixed by the clerk of awards.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2556, 17 July 1909, Page 5
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167LABOR MATTERS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2556, 17 July 1909, Page 5
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