BREACHES OF AWARDS.
Wellington. Nov. 10. hi the Magistrate’s Cc in t today. Thomas Page, tailor, was tini*d £3 for breach or the tailors’ award in al’owirg work to be done tor him on premis *s occupied by an operative. It v.a* <iuit<>nded that Pag* Jiat-I tin* .-ent ot the hou*'*. whi-h v.as registered as his factory. Tin* Inspector *ugge*ted that d •fertdint never paid rei.t until th'* pr<:.*e !- ings were taken. ANOTHER CASE. Sylvia Smith was tint'd £1 for breach of the tadoresses' award. The defendant an apprentice. lott her employment without completing her iipprenticcship. Tin* Inspector stated that the case was brought simply to show that girls -mist not chop and change round from ••Tie employe, to another ill o’d’r to get ■n.or.* wages. There had been a great ’loitaoe of female labour for some vears. Employers would 'do anything to obtain girls. In many cases the emijoyi'.** were not *o much to blame a* :lie employers, the rivalry among firms >.*ing so keen that inducements were •tferrnl to girls to change their employ-
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 276, 10 November 1911, Page 6
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