ARBITRATION COURT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 274, 12 August 1908, Page 10

ARBITRATION COURT.

[BY TEtECUirn—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) \ Invercargill, August 11, The Arbitration Court; sitting here to-day disposed of cases as follow: — A case against Masters and Son for having (it was alleged) taken orders for tailor-made suits when not occupiers of tailoring workshops was dismissed. Similar charges against two other clothiers were withdrawn. ■ J. T. Brooker (tailor) was fined £3 foi employing inoro girl apprentices than allowed by the award. J. W. Watson was charged with engaginj a male apprentice without notifying the in spector within a week of the engagement. There was a conflict of evidence, and' tin charge was dismissed. ' The Nightcaps Coal Company, was charged with employing five shift men at under the award rate of wages. . The case rests on the definition of shiftmen as to which the industrial agreement is not specific. The decision was reserved. E. H. Whitmorewas fined £5 for employing a compositor at less than the award rate of wages. The compositor ;was-fined £1 for accepting these wages. • Moor and Sons, sawmillers, were'charged with employing a stoker and engine-drivei at less than the award rate. The man named in the information as a stoker wai not engaged as such, and the case was dis missed. .In the, case of tho as the work w ono f: of' exceptionalcircum • stances, a breach was simply recorded, pro vided respondents pay-arrears.- - - ■ • J. Pai%ihite¥,' p T&ddlef, ? waV fined' £2 foi employing a journeyman at less than award rates,' arid the employee was fined 10s. •• H; Cox, sawmiller, >was' fined-£3 for' em-> ploying, a' man partly as bu'shman 'and partly as engine-driver at less than : the award rates. ' '' • In the • Sawmillers Union's application for an award, the Court suggested a conference, but the parties intimated that was hopeless.