Wright v New Zealand Woolpack and Textiles Limited - [1948] NZLR 130

Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Acts — Award — Agreement in Conciliation Council for Forty-four Hour Week — Terms of Settlement made an Award — No Oral Hearing by Court of Parties' Representatives thereon — No Indication in Award of Grounds which, in Court's opinion, made it impracticable to fix Forty as Maximum Weekly Number of Hours — Whether Absence of Oral Hearing and Statement of Grounds invalidated Award — Court acting within its Jurisdiction — Compliance with Requirement of "Hearing" — Condition as to Grounds directory — Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1936, s 20 (1) (2) — Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act (No 2), 1939, s 3.