BUILDERS FINED
FULL WAGES. NOT PAID
For failing to pay the entire amoiint of wages due to employees, on which charge they were convicted last month, G. N. Jensen and J. Jensen, builders, were, each fined £10, in default one month's imprisonment, by Mr. W. F. Stilwell. S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today, When the defendants were convicted last month Mr. J. J. Garbett, on- their behalf, said that their affairs were confused at the moment but they should be able to. pay in full shortly. The Magistrate then deferred the imposition of a penalty for four weeks; ■•
Today1 Mr. Garbett pleaded for a further extension, saying that one of the defendants was ill and away in the country. ■. • ■
Mr. F. W. Ashby, for the Lnbour Department, said that when the case was first heard, this defendant hri promised that half the amounts of wages owing would be paid within two weeks and the lot within a month, and it was on that understanding that counsel's application for postponement #1 ih&jLensto: had .keen-agreed-t0..^..
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 146, 17 December 1937, Page 11
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173BUILDERS FINED Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 146, 17 December 1937, Page 11
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