ARBITRATION COURT.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1799, 29 August 1906, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

FjNES FOR BREACHES OF AWARDS. PRESS ASSOCIATION.. CHRISTCHURCH, August 23. At the Arbitration Court* to-day, A. 8. Ford, butcher, was fined £5 for paying, and P. Greenslade £1 for accepting, less ■hail the minimum wage. J. Down, carpenter, was fine £5 for employing a ycuth a ithout indenturing him. Samuel Nathan, furniture-maker, was, fined £5 on each of three charges of employing a man on piecework, and £3 for failing to indenture an appientic o . The Kaiapoi Woollen Company was charged by the Tailors' Union with failing to observe the preference clause by dismissing union men and employing non-unionists. The case was dismissed. C. Calvert, carpenter, was fined £5 for employing a greater proportion of under-paid men to competent journeymen than that stated in the award. Falkinder and Son, plumbers, w T er© fined £5 for failing to indenture a boy, and Thomas Ryan, cartel', £5 for paying less than the minimum w’age. A. C. Howland was fined £1 for failing to indenture a boy under the terms of the industrial agreement. J.Mutton was fined £5 for failing to indenture a boy, and Freeman and Co., coachbuilders, were fined £1 for employing two boys as helpers in painting a shop instead of one.