1200 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V
fb) Territories under the authority of the Commonwealth,
New Zealand, or the Islands of the Pacific. The words
italicized represent the changes made in the section since
1908, when the Bill was first drafted in its present form.
Similarly the definition of ‘ Foreign-going ship > now reads—
Foreign-going ship includes every ship (other than an
Australian trade-ship) employed in trading or going between
olaces in Australia and places beyond Australia.
In the case of New Zealand there have been decided by the
High Court of New Zealand two cases of great importance,
which no doubt influenced the Government of the Dominion
in their action at the Conference of 1911. In the case of In
re Award of Wellington Cooks’ and Stewards’ Union, the issue
was whether an award by the New Zealand Court of Arbitra-
tion as to the minimum rate of wages to be paid to cooks
and stewards and seamen on vessels trading between New
Zealand and Australia was binding upon two steamship
companies, the first the Union Steamship Company of New
Zealand, being registered in New Zealand, with the head
offices and management in the Dominion, and the vessels
affected registered there. The other company, the Huddart-
Parker Company Proprietary, Limited, was a company regis-
tered in Victoria, where it had its head office and general
management, and where its ships were registered. The
articles of the Union Steamship Company’s ships were
signed in New Zealand, and the men were paid there, while
those of the Huddart-Parker Company’s vessels were signed
in Australia, where also the men received their pay. It was
found, as a matter of fact, that the awards made by the
Arbitration Court were not observed in full by the companies,
inasmuch as they called upon the employees in some of their
vessels to do work which under the award should have been
paid for as overtime, and which was not so paid for. This
happened while the ships were in Australian or Fijian ports,
or at sea, as well as when they were in New Zealand waters
vr harbours, and the Court of Arbitration sent a case for the
+ (1906) 26 N. Z. L. BR. 394. Cf, Harrison Moore, Commonwealth of
Australia? pp. 259, 266, 282, 283.
