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Compulsory Arbitration in New Zealand This page intentionally left blank Compulsory Arbitration in New Zealand The First Forty Years JAMES HOLT Auckland University Press ©Jill Holt 1986 First published 1986 PRINTED IN NEW ZEALAND from type computer-set by Jacobsons Typesetters Limited by University Printing Services, Auckland ISBN 1 86940 006 2 This book is dedicated to Bill Holt who drowned in the Motu River 9 April 1982 This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements 8 Laurence James Holt (1939-1983): a Memoir 9 Preface 13 1 Origins 15 2 The Arbitration System Emerges, 1894-1901 33 3 1901-1908 57 4 1909-1913 93 5 War and Inflation, 1914-1920 116 6 Stabilisation, 1920-5 143 7 The Farmers' Revolt, 1926-1935 165 Appendices: I: Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1894 192 II: Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amend- ment Act, 1908 215 III: Judges and Assessors of the Court of Arbitration 235 Bibliography 236 Index 243 Acknowledgements On Jim's behalf I would like to thank the many very kind people without whom the book would never have reached publication. First I thank all the librarians and archivists in public, private, and university libraries who gave Jim help when he was doing basic research. For fear of omission I mention no names, but I hope all who helped in giving him access to documents, manuscripts, and books will accept this as a personal acknowledgement. I thank the typists of the Auckland University History Department who typed the manuscript on to a word processor and I am grateful to the staff of the History Department for arranging this and for supporting publication, and to Michael Belgrave for preparing the book to be typeset by computer. I would like to thank Keith Sinclair for reading the script, organizing initial contacts with Dennis McEldowney of the University Press, and overseeing and encouraging publication. I owe particular thanks to Raewyn Dalziel, who at a very difficult time collected the chapters, made copies, arranged for colleagues to read the script, and generally provided immense support. Above all I thank Erik Olssen, who edited and checked the text and read the proofs at several stages. His skill and dedication, together with his knowledge of the topic and the period, have ensured that the book appears with the meticulous attention to detail Jim Holt would have given it. Jill Holt 8 Laurence James Holt (1939-1983) a Memoir James Holt died suddenly on 24 July 1983. He had recently moved to Wellington from Auckland with his family to assume the position of Chief Historian in the Historical Publications Branch of the Depart- ment of Internal Affairs. After six weeks in the new position he had begun to enjoy Wellington, the job, the friends he had made, the political contacts. He had written a speech or two for the new leader of the Labour Party, David Lange. He was at work on a project for his good friend, Labour's finance spokesman, Roger Douglas. He was seeing at first hand the lives that many of his close friends in politics were leading. His study of the arbitration system in New Zealand was nearly finished, and would soon be ready for publication. He was, as ever, brimming over with historical anecdotes and insights into New Zealand, and the country's social and economic development. And then the suddenness of his death. It led on to a week of mourning, involving a great many from the worlds of academia, politics, and the civil service, first in Wellington and then in Auckland. Friends and colleagues come and go; Jim Holt was irreplaceable. Jim Holt was born in Auckland on 14 September 1939, a few days after the outbreak of World War II. He was born into an anti-violent family, one which put all its endeavours into stopping wars. It always seemed to me, as I grew up in the same neighbourhood, that it was an intellectually enriched family. The Holts, and their cousins in the next street, the Leathems, and their other close friends, were educated people. Laurence, Jim's father, became the first Professor of Account- ancy at the University of Auckland. His mother was a graduate. Jim, as one might expect, was a very verbal child. I have a clear picture of him sitting at the end of the Leathems' table, in Kitenui Avenue, talking nineteen to the dozen. It was the late 1940s. All of us were attuned to radio and its personalities. Jim's cousin, Robert, to whom we all looked 9
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