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FINANCIAL RELIEF
Arbitration Decisions
E. AND Q. DEPT, REFUSED
Further d cisions on applications for
relief under the Financial Emergency
Act were delivered . by the Arbitration
Court today. Among them was that oi
the Electricity and Gas Department,
which, by a majority verdict, the Court
refused.
The President said that the' evidence
tendered go the Court was such that it
did not justify the Court in granting the
application. Mr. W. Somerville agreed
with this view.
Mr. .Bloxsome said he differed from
his coi-c-gues. The department was
carrying on a public utiUr', and, having
a monopoly, was able U* charge whatever
ft thought proper, and the result was a
very considerable profit. But that profit
was not necessarily a matter for un
mixed congratulation, because, after all.
iz was only another form of taxation of
vlie public. If the City Council did not
derive its revenue from the department
it was possible that it would have to tax
the public in other ways. He saw no
reason why the 'department, because it
made a profit at the expense of the
public, should be refused the relief it
sought.
. The following applicants were grant
ed orders under the Act: — Van Heurcfc
and Thomas Ltd., Bolton's Ltd., J. W
Filear, Campbell and Mannix, J. Rhodes
Bryan's Motor Works, J. H. Buzz*
A. F. Hoare and Eons, E. N
Brown, Dalgetv and Co.. Elder.
Smith and VCo., Goldsbrough, Mort
and Co., Westralian Farmers Ltd..
Bfintock's Ltd., A. Pippen, John
Shields. T. Blakeley and Sons, Charles
Tompkins. Waverley Laundry. Hubert
Josenh- Cfrtwright. Monarch Laundry.
Applications by Westralian Firmer*
T.td. against the Australian Workers'
Union, and Walter Jorg^nson against the
Metropolitan Jewellers. Watchmakers and
Allied Trades' Union of Workers, were
adjourned sine die.
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