THE COURTS-TO-DAY

Evening Star, Issue 15908, 14 September 1915, Page 4

THE COURTS-TO-DAY

MAGISTRATE'S COURT. (Before H. Y. Widdowson, Esq., S.M.) Judgment by defa.ul tfor plaintiffs was given in the following cases:—Mollisons, Ltd. v. Jas. T. Young (Wangaruii), claim £3 15s, for drapery, with costs (10s) ; F. H. King and Co, Ltd. v. Alex. D. Gibson (Waipukurau, H. 8.), claim £l4 5s lOd, for draperv and clothing, with costs (£2 3s 6d); Mills, Dick, and Co. v. Benjamin Colt-ran (Invercargill), 'claim 13s 6d, for goods, with costs (10s); A. D. Edgar* v. J. C. Smith, claim £2 2s, for dental work done, with costs (ss). Breach of Award.—The Inspector of Awards (Mr I* D. Browett) proceeded against John T. Cunningham (for whom Mr Wilkinson appeared) and Alfred Baker, hairdressers, of Dunedin, claiming £lO for a breach of the Dunedin Hairdressers' Assistants' award, in which they worked their employees on June 25 (Prince of Wales's Birthday).—lt was urged for the defendants, who pleaded guilty, that the offence was not a deliberate, one, both employers and assistants having overlooked the fact that that day was Prince of. Wales Birthday. When their attention was drawn to at during the morning woA; was at once stopped.—His Worship remarked that no doubt the fact that the hairdressers being the only trade to which the holiday applied led to the day. being overlooked. At the same time, "the. responsibility was theirs. In the circumstances, he would inflict a fine of 10s in each case. -