THE ARBITRATION COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3994, 29 July 1915, Page 2

THE ARBITRATION COURT.

TO HIT IX GISBORNE ON SATURDAY. A NUMBER OF MATTERS TO I3E SETTLED. A silting of the Arbitration Courtwill commence at Gisborne on Saturday next. The members of the Court, who arrive oil Saturday morning, wiil be: 11is Honor Air Justice Stringer, president; Air E. E. Duthie, employers’ representative; and Air J. A. AJcCullough, workers’ representative. The carpenters’, painters’, general laborers’, and tailors’ disputes, win hi were before the last sitting of the Conciliation Council at Gisborne, will be dealt with. As regards the first three mentioned disputes settlements were arrived at by the Conciliation Council, but in order to have the terms of settlement referred U> the Court to be made into an award, one clause had to be passed on to the Court. These three cases will probably lie. taken on Saturday, also w orkers’ compensation eases. As regards the tailors’ dispute the Conciliation Council agreed upon an increase for weekly hands, but the rate of pay for piece workers was not settled. This is the main question to be discussed before the Arbitration Court, and what is done in the Gisborne dispute will probably be a precedent for tlie whole Dominion. The tailors’ dispute will likely he taken on Monday. AH \Y. Pryor, secretary of the Now Zealand Employers’ Federation, who arrived from South yesterday morning, will conduct the case for the master tailors. The compensation case is a claim for £‘ol2 18s made by Charlotte Brown, of AVairoa, widow of Charles Brown (Mr Lynch) against the East Coast Rabbi (Air Burnard, instructed by Brandon and Tlislop, of Wellington). The deceased was in the employ of the Rabbit Board as a rabbi ter* On New Year’s Day lastho went out shooting in company with another man, and fell over a cliff on the bank of the Molutka River, and died as a result, of the injuries received. It is contended by the claimant that on that day among other things, deceased was shooting goats, and that the goats’ moat was used to feed the dogs deceased used for rabbiting, and therefore what lie was doing came within the scope of his employment. The defence is that the accident arose outside the scope of deceased s employment because New Years D" was a holiday.