ARBITRATION COURT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 169, 18 July 1908, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

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CASES AT TIMARU,

[press association.] ' i TIMARTJ, July 17. A sitting of the Arbitration Court I was held here this' morning, when,1 breaches of. the carpenters' a/ad threshing ' millers' 'awards were dealt with. ,

B. Bucher was fined £2 for failing to pay carpenters' award rates when setting some additions to his 'private residence. G. Collett ,was fined £3 for failing %o indenture an apprentice, iiive and Cbcliran, carpenters, were, fined £2 for failing to pay award rates to P. Cochrane and J. Watt, who- wer,e ordered to paj/ Court: costs for accepting such.wage 3. H. EJardwicke was fined £2 for a breach of the threshing millers' award dn' failing to keep a pass-book in the galley. J.. T.. Grant, A. Maxwell and D.i McMillan were fined £2 each for leaving a threshing, mill without giving notice, the case ltaing brought at the instance' of the Labour Department. In ' a case in which. a firm of\ car*penters were charged with failing to indenture two apprentices, judgment was reserved, Mr Kinne.rney, for the defendants, raising the point that it would hpve boen illegal' to indenture this case, at the expiry of five years the apprentices would . have boen 21 and 23 years of age respectively, and under the Act of 1865 apprenticeship expires at 19 . One compensation case was haard. A girl of 15 working in a steam laundry claimed £150 damages through her left hand being crushed [ and burned between- steam rollers so as to render it practically useless. Judgment ,was reserved.