"NOT GENERAL MANAGER."

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1927, Page 11

"NOT GENERAL MANAGER."

UNRULY APPRENTICE. WAEXIXG FROM THE BEXCII. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.; WELLINGTON, Wednesday. "You have probably not realised just what your place is in the scheme of things. The sooner a young man realises that he is not general manager of tht." whole works the better it. will be for him and evervbodv else."

These remarks were addressed by Mr. Justice Frazcr in the Arbitration Court to-day to Fred Cornish, an apprentice, who appealed against his dismissal from the Wellington Patent Slip Company.

His Honor said the reasons for ,the dismissal were numerous, including insubordination and unreliability. The Court was always prepared to make '■allowance for lads being high-spirited.

"Boys will be boys," he said, "but there is a limit to that sort of thing. We cannot allow a boy to upset everything simply because he is a boy. Apparently this lad has an exaggerated sense of his own importance, and he seems to think that he can do more or less as he likes. and that he can come here and talk ver.v <rlib!y and get out of it. That sort of thing will not go down with the Court." In the present case the Court could not allow the appeal, said hi? Honor, but it was of opinion that when a lad was in the fifth year of his apprenticeship it was rather hard that he should he deprived of the opportunity to continue the occupation he desired. The manager of the Patent Slip Comnanv. Mr. Jamieson. said he agreed wit!his Honor. He would be sorry to see thf> oxperienee the lad had rrained thrown nwnv. However, he thought he had b?on tausrht a lesson and he was prepared to enfacincr him neain. His Honor: T am gi;>d you nut it tha f war. Mr. Jamieson. T honp this will ho i lesson to him and to others.