SUPREME COURT
CLAIM FOR EXTRA PAYMENT
The action between Lewis Frederick Brooker, William McLeod, William E. Austin, Bernard Magee, and Norman Glass (employees) and the Oamapu Mail Company, Ltd., was commenced at the Supreme Court yesterday before Mr Justice Kennedy. The men are claiming £124 5s lOd from the company, representing additional sums prescribed by the award for operator-mechanics. They hold that they were employed as linotype operator-mechanics, whereas the company maintains that they were employed as linotype operators only, and were consequently not entitled to extra payment. Mr I. B. Stevenson appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr C. J. L. White for the company. Evidence was given regarding the running of the linotype machines, the causes of stoppages In the machines, and who was supposed to remedy the cause of the stoppages. The taking of evidence had not been completed when the court adjourned at 5 o’clock till this morning.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25302, 12 August 1943, Page 6
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151SUPREME COURT Otago Daily Times, Issue 25302, 12 August 1943, Page 6
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