THE BOOT TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 67, 19 March 1910, Page 10

THE BOOT TRADE.

EMPLOYMENT OF GIRLS. (By Telegraph. Association.) ; : . " WELLINGTON, Friday. " The Arbitration Court to-day filed its decision in the case brought by the inspector of ; awards (Mr W. Newton) against- Ik Hannah -aid Co., Limited. The question to be determined "was as to the interpretation of a clause of the New Zealand federated boot trade award in : connection with female operatives. The Court held that theTe were three classes' of apprentices: (1) The indentured apprentice, who is to be s appren ticed for five years, and paid wages fixed by subclause D; - (2) the apprentice who is not indentured, but who is engaged to - serve as an apprentice for five years (all the provisions of clause "14. apply to this • clause, save the incorporated provisions of clause 12); and (3) girl 3 who are not indentured or engaged to serve i as'apprentices for any definite : term, but ' are employed . merely .to , work in the factory. ■"-; ;' (The f; provisions of | . ■.«Ja'us_e, 12 of - the-award to tiis> J ' lass.) ~AU the girls in question in the ;< r cauH withicL the last-mentioned' "i • classj-'ema as'due notice was "given.,.to - them, in terms of clause 12 of the award r their- engagements -were properly deteri.niined. v .There; had, ..therefore; '-been no % JESMfcft -the-award,,.. M d-.- judgment sHWd~T>e-gtven -for the defsridarits. 1 ; No' i-r orier -waa-mde as to costs,; the : case J. bdna Seated as one of iiiterjjUation. n