PREMIUMS HANDED BACK
HAIRDRESSER PINED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, This Day.
At the Police Court T. P. Robinson, junior, a ladies' hairdresser, was proceeded against on two charges of receiving a premium in respect to tho employment of two shop assistants. The defendant advertised for assistants to learn the business. Two young women were accepted and each paid a premium of £50, receiving £1 weekly as wages The defence was that the girls were pupils and the £1 paid weekly was not wages but a refund.
Tho inspector of factories contended that the relationship of master and servant existed.
The Magistrate held that the girls received wages. The teaching had been of a minimum character. Before inflicting a fin of £2 and costs he disposed of the civil side of the action, the defendant confessing on a claim foi a refund of premiums.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 70, 20 September 1927, Page 10
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