JUDGMENT RESERVED
APPRENTICE’S CLAIM {Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Decision was reserved by Mr. Justice Reed in the Wellington Supreme Court in the case in which Gilbert Archer, a minor, claimed £SOO damages from S. S. Williams and Co., Ltd., upholsterers. He alleged that the defendants had failed to teach him tnc l upholstery trade as they had contracted. In the course of evidence, Inspector Gooducre, of the Labor Department, said that during the last two or three years employers had found it difficult to And work for their apprentices. Several employers had applied under section 56 of the Finance Act for relief. Magistrates, on the application of employers, had granted very few cancellations. About 400 applications had been made, and only in about 3 per cent, of the cases had contracts been cancelled.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18559, 20 November 1934, Page 7
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