ARBITRATION COURT.
A TRIVIAL CASE. [BY TELEOIUPH.I Wellington, Monday. The Arbitration Court held that it had no jurisdiction in either the drivers' or wharf laborers' case. The Painters and Decorators' Union brought a case against a local employer, charging him with a breach of award by employing a boy who was not an apprentice. The Court decided that a breach of the award had been committed, but at the same time said that it was a most frivolous oase. The boy had on his own evidence been shown to be an able apprentice, and he had been well treated by his employer. That employer, in the Court's opinion, had not been well or considerately treated by the imion, and it was to be regretted that this action had been taken. It was not good for Business or for the continuance of .amicable relations between employers and employed in the colony if such cases were to be brought forward. The Court felt so Btrongly on the matter that it would have liked to have given the fullest costs to the defendant, but as there had been a technical breach the Court could not allow costs, but it declined to impose any fine.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11590, 17 July 1900, Page 3
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