CHART MADE SUITS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9183, 6 April 1910, Page 8

CHART MADE SUITS.

CASE IN THE ARBITRATION COURT. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, April 6. A case of more than ordinary interest was dealt with by the Arbitration Court. The subject Avas chart-made suits. Under the tailoresses' award all garments for which orders are taken must be made in the shop or premises connected therewith or at a workroom belonging to the employer. This is not part of the tailors' or any other , award, and appears to have been generally ignored. In the case of Sarah J. Hunt, removed from the Magistrate's Court, defendant was charged with a breach of the award by having executed an order at her shop, Newmarket, and had it made up in a factory in Auckland. Defendant was formerly a tailoress. and now carries on a hosiery business. Counsel for the defence submitted that if it was held that a breach was committed a large number of Auckland firms would have to close. The uniforms for the \x>lice and volunteers were made from charts, and the Government was the most serious offender. Judge Sim said the penalties previously enforced "were due to wrong representations on account of chart suits. He decided that a breach was committed, though the Court recognised in practice that the clause was not applied to short orders. The case would be sent back to the Magistrate, together with the Court's opinion. If he considered the evidence trivial, he would be justified in dismissing the case.