COURT OF APPEAL.
LIABILITY OF CORPORATIONS UNDER THE ARBITRATION ACT.
[Per Press Association.!
WELLINGTON, July 22. Tn the Appeal Court to-day, Mr. MacGregor, on behalf of the Dunedin City Corporation, in a case before the Court of Appeal, contended, firstly, that municipal corporations were not expressly included within the. classes of persons mentioned in the Arbitration Act; secondly, that employees' of such corporations have acquired, by virtue of their own Acts and by virtue of'the Municipal Corporations Act, a special status distinct from the status acquired by workers under an award of the Arbitration Court; thirdly, that employees of such corporations were employed otherwise than for the direct or indirect pecuniary gain of their employers, and therefore, section 71 of the Amendment Act of 1908, not withstanding its proviso, expressly excluded municipal corporations from the scope of the Arbitration Court. After Mr. Weston, on behalf of the Otago Harbor Board, had addressed the Court, judgment was reserved.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2561, 23 July 1909, Page 5
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157COURT OF APPEAL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2561, 23 July 1909, Page 5
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