MAGISTRATE’S COURT
SUMMONS CASES. “When provision is made for the protection of the worker a breach should be heavily punished,” observed Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Magistrates Court yesterday, when dealing with a. foreman, named John Cook, who had permitted the use of a lift to which an automatic catch was not attached. lh° defendant was convicted and fined £5. Ernest Hadley, who denied a charge of being drunk while in charge of a horse, was fined £3 and costs. (■felling cigarettes on. a Sunday cost Neil Austin £l. A similar penalty was inflicted on Aladam E. Cowan, who omitted to keep a wages book. For being on licensed premises after hours F. H. Moerell was fined £2 and costs. . Employing a person under sixteen without first obtaining a certificate of fitness led to Charles E. Clerg and Co. being fined £3. W. Hetherington, for failing to close his shop at Kaiwarra at 9 p.m. was fined £2 and costs.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 154, 17 March 1923, Page 7
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162MAGISTRATE’S COURT Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 154, 17 March 1923, Page 7
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