SCHOOL FOOTBALL

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1909, Page 6

SCHOOL FOOTBALL

Petone, 3 ; Brooklyn, 3. Terrace, 6 ; Newfcown, 3. Clyde-quay, 2; Thorndon, 0. Petone, 11 ;' Newtown juniors, 0. Hutt. 3; Mt. Cook, 0. South Wellington, 22; To Aro, 3. Hearings oi breaches of award cases by magistrates is not favoured by the committee, of the Wellington Employers' Association. It is considered the court making the wards is the tribunal best able to interpret them, and to give consistent decisions, which .would act as precedents in- similar cases. Varying de.cisions of a number of magistrates, it is held, will probably lead to confusion and uncertainty. The unduly heavy fines imposed by some magistrates on the hearing of the first cat.es brought before them gave rise to considerable apprehension. Employers protested against i the imposition of penalties that were [ much, more severe than the Arbitration Coun had ai any time imposed for similar breaches of award. Sixpence in postage stamps have been received by the Town Cierk from a con-science-stricken correspondent, who returns tram fares of which, he says, ho ! defrauded the council. A young man named Edward Peterson, one of the crowd that assembled on the Queen's Wharf yesterday evening .o see the Prime Minister take his departure for England, was observed by Inspector Ellison to bo indulging in an unnecessary amount of jostling. The Inspector secured Peterson, who this morning, in the Stipendiary Magistrate's CouK was charge with threaten int; behaviour, whereby a breach of vha peace was occasioned. Evidence was given that defendant struck out with his bauds indiscriminately. Defendant stated that ha had received provocation. He was convicted and fined 20s ; in default seven days' imprisonment. Conciliation Councils sira approved by tlia Wellington Employers' Associatipn, which, in its annual report, states that so far the working and results of this new machinery have proved eminently satisfactory, and jjivo promise oi doing away with the bitter feeling that was apt to be displayed in disputes before Conciliation .boardfe and Arbitration Court. There is an encouraging tendency on the part of ■workers to recognise the community • of interest that exists between worker and employer. The comprehensive definition of a strike and of striking; and the penalties provided in the Act, . should, the report states, induce workers to realise that awards of the court muVfc be observed, and that they canncrfl with impunity interfere with, or prevent the supply of, the necessaries of life or the use- of public means of conveyance.