BOROUGH FINED
FAILURE TO REGISTER APPBENTICES. ■..,'■■
(Special U "Th« Evinlng.Ptit.") PALMERSTON N., This Day. On the' information of Mr. J. Low-
tlen, Inspector of Awards, the, Borough '■■ Council was charged at the Magistrate's Court with failing to • register •
two apprentices within twenty-eight days. "
Mr. Cooke, for the Borough Council, stated that the breach was purajy a technical one. There was no question. about the boys not having been properly paid. The Borough Council nad given them 30s a week in wages, whereas the award was- £1 per week. ; The cases, counsel understood, were tho first bt their kind in the Dominion. -
Mr. Lowden did not press for a heavy; penalty. The cases he mentioned were not the first in the Dominion, but the flrat jn Palmerston North. - •
Mr. J. L. Stout imposed a fin* of £1 in each instance.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 137, 7 December 1926, Page 8
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