AN ANCIENT LABOR LAW.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12586, 17 October 1911, Page 5

AN ANCIENT LABOR LAW.

(Per. Press. Association.) ' CHRISTCHURCH, this di.y. .£ At the "Magistrate's Oouvt this inorning, an apprentice at Addington -workshops was charged with, having disobeyed the orders of the foreimin. Tile yoUth was engaged chipping brasses, and placed a board m front of him to piweint the chips flying about. TTie foreman ordered him to remove the board, which he declined to do. The, .^lagistrate said the case should not have come before the Uourt, It pught to have been; d^alt with, by the Department.. The law on the subject had been standing since. 1665, a,nd was very drastic. Under it tin offender could be ordered to* be placed, m solitary confinement for .% period not exceeding seven days.' The Magistrate add&d that the law ought, to bfe revised; " -. :.'..', . . . ; ";•"• ;