TRADES AND LABOUR.
WELLINGTON, June 22. In the butchers' dispute the Conciliation
Board awarded rates of pay ranging from 33 per week and meat and found, or 10s if not found, for first shopman to £1 Iss with meat and found for second small goods man. jyor hawking 'carts the rates awarded are according to the amount of trado done — from 31 15s and meat and found to £2 5s and meat and found. Overtime to be paid for at rate and a-half. Eight holidays allowed. Each shop is allowed one boy, and one boy per four men in addition. Hours: 6 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 6to 9 ; Wednesday, 6 to 1. Preference to unionists on the usual conditions.
INVERCARGILL, June 22. An unusual case under the Factories Act and the Employment of Boys and Girls Without Payment Prevention Act cams before the stipendiary magistrate (Major Keddell to-day. The defendant was Mrs Wade, a dressmaker, who also conducts a class for the instruction of girls on Wednesday afternoons, the statutory half-holiday in Invercargill. Inspector Shanaghan admitted the 'fact that the girls were not employees, but he contended that a factory could not be used for this purpose. The magistrate held that section 68 of the Factories Act applied only to employees, and dismissed the case.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2416, 28 June 1900, Page 32
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