BOYS IN EMPLOYMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20312, 20 July 1929, Page 14

BOYS IN EMPLOYMENT.

PROSECUTION OF BAKER. " BACK TO BAD OLD DAYS." "This is going back to tho bad old days, employing boys of that age," saicl Mr. F. Iv. Hunt, S.M., in tho Magistrate's Court yesterday, when J. Feisst, a baker (Mr. Singer), was charged with employing youths without certificates. Tho inspector of factories said the Labour Department had received complaints that defendant was employing girls in his bakehouse. Witness visited defendant's premises, finding two boys there aged 12 and 13 respectively. lie advised defendant that he was committing a breach of the award by employing boys without a certificate of physical fitness." Later witness returned and found the boys still doing work which should have been carried out by journeymen. .Mr. Singer said defendant had been in a depressed state of mind owing to the recent death of his wife. The boys had not been doing regular work, but ho had allowed them to help him, giving them a few shillings and goods in return. He considered thev were better at work than wandering the streets. The Magistrate: Yes, I have heard a milkman say that when he took a boy on his round at 3 o'clock in the morning, A fino of £1 was imposed.