TRAMWAY EMPLOYEES AND COUNCIL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1913, Page 8

TRAMWAY EMPLOYEES AND COUNCIL

BREACHES OP AGREEMENT. j In the -case Inspector of -Awards v. Mayor and' Councillors of Wellington, which was heard recently, Dr. M'Arthur,* S.M., delivered reserved judgment tliis morning. • , • Plaintiff claimed to recover £10 as a penalty for a breach of the Wellington tramways employees' agreement, dated 27th November, 1911. . Breaches of, the award were alleged for failure of the defendants to employ a trimmer during the several Sunday morning shifts in the months of November and > December, 1912; and for employing a fireman named Tomlinson in repairing furnaces, and only paying him Is 3d per hour instead of Is 4d, as provided by the award. The Inspector, of Awards also claimed to recover from the defendant* £10 as a penalty for another breach of the same agreement, alleging that the council did on the 25th, 26th, 27th, and 28th September, 1912, during his respective shifts, employ a foreman named William Tomlinson pn work other than attending to steam and water in the stokehold machinery. His Worship considered that the defendants had committed a breach of the agreement in each of the three cases, but as interpretation only was sought for, no penalty would be inflicted.