CHART-MADE SUITS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 80, 6 April 1910, Page 8

CHART-MADE SUITS.

« AN INTERESTING CASE. [DV TtLEGIUMI— PIIESB ASSOCIATIOK.I AUCKLAND, This Day. A case of more than ordinary inte'rpst was dealt with by the Arbitration Court on the sulijptt of chart-mr.de suits. » Under the tailoi esses' award, all garments for which orders are taken must be made in the shop or premises connected therewith, or at a workroom belonging to thn employer. This is not part of the tailors or any other award, and it appears has been generally ignored. In the case of Sarah J. Hunt, an action removed from the Mipistrato's Court, the defendant was charged with a breach of the award, in having executed an order at her shop at Newmarket and had it made up at ;i factory in Auckland. The defendant was formerly a tailoress, and now carries on a hosiery business. Counsel for the defence submitted that if it was held that a breach had been committed a large number of Auckland firms would have to close. Uniforms for the police and volunteers were made trom charts, and the Government was a ruost serious offender. Mr. Justice Sim sakl the penalties previously enforced weie due to wrong representations. He decided that a breach had been committed, though the court recognised that in practice the clause was not applied to chart orders. The case would be sent back to the Magistrate, together with the court's opinion that if he considered the evidence trivial, he would be justified in dismissing the case.