ABSENCE FROM WORK

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 62, 14 March 1944, Page 2

ABSENCE FROM WORK

YOUNG WOMAN'S EXCUSES

"SICK MOTHER" DID NOT EXIST (0.C.) WANGANUI, this day. "When the defendant was absent from work between October 11 and 15, she said she had been ill, and had also had to nurse her mother, but her mother has been dead for three years," said Sergeant F. J. Bonnington in the Wanganui Magistrate's Court in describing the circumstances in which a young woman had committed a breach of the manpower regulations. The prosecution was the first of its kind in Wanganui. Edith Myrtle Watson, aged 20, I charged with leaving her employclient with the-Wanganui Woollen I Mills, where she had been directed, j without the manpower officer's perj mission, pleaded guilty. Sergeant Bonnington said defend- ! ant had been directed to the mills !on September 13, was off during j October and was absent again on 1 November 11 until early in February, when she returned after receiving a j summons. The police had some trouble in locating her, but she was ! now back at work and had no comj plaint concerning the nature of her employment. In answer to Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., the district manpower officer, Mr. F. L. Frost, said he did not de- ; sire to press for a penalty. Defendant i was convicted and ordered to pay I costs.