MAGISTRATE’S COURT.
In the Magistrate’s Court before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., yesterday, the license© of a local hotel was charged with employing a worker who was in arrears with the payment of his unemployment levy. Mr Baldwin appeared for defendant, who pleaded not guilty on tho ground that he had reasonable belief that the levy had been paid. Defendant stated that lie had been informed verbally by other employees that the worker concerned, who had been in his service for six years, had paid. He commented' that the Government expected employers to retain the services of workers when they could do with lialf the present staff, and this was tho way in which he was rewarded for his action. He had paid up tho arrears of the employee’s levy and would have done so before had he known it was not paid. The Magistrate entered a conviction without a fine..
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 141, 17 May 1932, Page 10
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151MAGISTRATE’S COURT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 141, 17 May 1932, Page 10
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