TRAWLERS' AWARD.
A DUNEDIN CASE. IBj Telegraph— Press Association.) Dunedin, July 30. At the Magistrate's Court on Saturday Ml'. Haselden heard a case in which the Inspector of Awards sued the Uneeda Trawling Company for JilO as penalty for alleged breach of the Dunedin Trawlers' Award in employing four men for more than 70 hours during tho week eniled May 12, and failing to pay the prescribed overtimo rates. The men wero employed on tho Waitangi, and _ were paid for 70 hours that week, it being maintained by tho Labour Department that they wero entitled to be paid for 72 hours. During that week it was l'oggy weather, which curtailed trawling. Mr. J. C. Stephens, for the defence, said that in the exigencies of such a business a wido interpretation should be given to tho clause, allowing time to bo deducted in special circumstances, such as a breakdown of machinery, during which men would bo idle, and it might happen that the weather would prevent any trawling being douo for days in a week, vet the men were paid for the whole week. The evidence showed that during the week a net was lost, and tho vessel got ashore for a time at Fulling Point. The caso stands partly heard.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1193, 31 July 1911, Page 6
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210TRAWLERS' AWARD. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1193, 31 July 1911, Page 6
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