AN APPRENTICE FINED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 218, 15 September 1925, Page 6

AN APPRENTICE FINED.

_ LEFT HIS EMPLOYMENT. WARNING BY MAGISTRATE. ——" . j (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) , CHRISTCHURCH, this day. j "Employers and apprentices' must realise that they cannot go chopping and changing round. The 1923 Apprentices' Act stops all that. I hope this case, the first of its kind in New Zealand, will be a public w-arnirig," said Mr. H. Y. Widdowson, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day, in inflicting a fine of £5 on a youth who had left his employment before his term of apprenticeship was finished. The case was brought by the Labour Department (represented by Mr. A. E. Waite) against a b°Y> H. P. Joines, who left the employers he ,was apprenticed to, Otley and Son, Ltd., to join the employ of Hay and Osborne. Last week Hay and Osborne were fined £5 for employing the boy, and Joines paid £5 into court. Mr. Widdowson said that apparently the employers and the boy had now come to their senses. This was the first case of the kind in New Zealand. It was brought under the Apprentices' Act of 1923. It was as well that members of the public should know of their obligations in this respect.