THE INDUSTRIAL LAW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15174, 13 December 1912, Page 5

THE INDUSTRIAL LAW.

SEVERAL EMPLOYERS FINED.

A number of alleged breaches of various industrial awards were heard before Mr. C. C. Kettle, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court yesterday.

Mudford and Sons, boot manufacturers, were charged on three informations with having employed women after six p.m. without the warrant of the inspector of factories. Defendants were convicted, and on each charge a penalty of 5s and costs 7s was imposed. For employing workers for more than 48 hours a week without paying overtime rates Wilsons Portland Cement Company, Ltd., .was ordered to pay the cost of the prosecution (275) and to pay all the arrears of wages duo to the' men. For having failed to keep a wages and overtime book T. Markwick, licensee of the Queen's Ferry Hotel, was fined £5 and costs 7s.

- JT. H. Adams was fined . 10s and costs for having failed to notify the Plumbers' Union that ho had engaged a plumber who was not a member of the union, the offence being a breach of the award. Ellen L. Finlay, having sold tobacco after nine p.m., the hour required by the Act for all tobacconists to close thenshops, was fined 10s and costs 7s. C. McManus, licensee of the Clarendon Hotel, was charged with having employed a barman without making application to the Hotel Employees' Union. The magistrate said it was impossible to convict the defendant, who had sworn that he had rung up the union's office for a man, had waited two days, and had then employed an applicant who said he was a unionist. r !Tie information w<*ys dismissed. .