MAKING OF SHIRTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3833, 30 August 1927, Page 76

MAKING OF SHIRTS.

POSITION OF GIRLS’ HOME. CHRISTCHURCH. August 23. Should the Mount Magdala Home be added to the shirt, white, and silk workers’ award? This question was raised in the Arbitration Court this morning before Mr Justice Frazer and Messrs A. L. Monteith and W. Scott, assessors, when the union applied for the adding of the home to the award. Mr Justice Frazer observed that the home was an institution to which many girls of all ages were sent, and there were difficulties in the application, such as those of apprenticeship and holidays. The Blind Institution in Auckland had caused similar difficulties to those with which the union was faced in Christchurch, and an arrangement had been arrived at that the institution should sell to the public at a price to be arranged in consultation with the other manufacturers.

The union representative (Mr J. W. Roberts) referred to the effect on trade of the home’s activities, and his Honor said that the home could nit bind girls to an apprenticeship. It would be absurd.

Mr Roberts pointed out that the work done in the home was exactly tlie same as that done in ordinary factories n Christchurch.

His Honor said that the question would be held over until the authorities at the home could be communicated with. He thought the safer way would be to make an arrangement that goods from the home would not be sold at less than a certain price.