SWEATING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9294, 16 February 1907, Page 8

SWEATING.

LAUNDRY-KEEPER FINED. [PRESS ASSOCIATION/] WELLINGTON, December 15. At the Magistrate's Court, Eliza Couchman, who conducts a laundry at Petone, ■was charged with employing women at 'hours between 6 p.m. and 8 a.m. without holding a permit, and with having failed to keep an overtime book. Pleas of guilty were entered. The Inspector of Factories said the case was a. very bad one, and a good deal of ingenuity was employea to keep him out of the laundry. It was quite a common thing for girls to work overtime behind 'locked doors. They had been known to -faint at the work tables, and be taken outside for ihalf am hour and then brought back. The Magistrate imposed a fine of £5 on each information with costs amounting to £8.