HOTEL EMPLOYEES AND THEIR HOLIDAYS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14907, 21 February 1914, Page 6

HOTEL EMPLOYEES AND THEIR HOLIDAYS.

PROSECUTIONS IN WELLINGTON

(rr.C.S ASSOCIATION" TCT._GII.ViC.)

WELLINGTON, February _0.

Tho first prosecution under section 7 of tho Shops and Clfices Amendment •Act, 1913. which came into force on December loth last, took placo in the Magistrate's Court hero to-day, when threo hotel employees wero charged with having failed to sign their names in the holiday-book. Section 7 of the amending Act of 1.13 replaced section _ of the main amending Act, which provides for tho keeping of a holiday i book showing the day on which each hotel worker is allowed a half-holiday. The clause has been further amended by the 1913 Act by the provision of tho following sub-clause: "Every assistant who fails to sign tho record is liable to a fine of £1." In to-day's action tho informant was the Inspector of Factories, who explained that under tho 1910 Act the record book was not efiectuallv kept because of negligence on the part* of the employees who signed it. The amendment of last session was passed for the purpose of ensuring a correct record of the observance of the holiday. As this wa_ tho first case of its kind, only nominal penalties were imposed.

A remarkable coincidence is reported by Messrs Baldwin and Ray-ward, tho well-known Patent Attorneys. Recently they received from the Hon. Sir Charles Parsons particulars of an apparatus for producing high vacua. The samo mail brought details of an almost similar invention from Monsieur Blanc, a noted French Savant. Prudent inventors everywhere consult Messrs Baldwin and Rayward, Bonnintrton's Building, corner Hiizh and Cashel streets. Christchurch. *»