APPRENTICE’S CLAIM

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1934, Page 6

APPRENTICE’S CLAIM

TRADE ALLEGEDLY NOT TAUGHT.

COURT RESERVES DECISION.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night Decision was reserved by Mr. Justice Reed in the Supreme Court at Wellington to-day in the case in which Gilbert Archer, a minor, claimed £5OO damages from S. S. Williams and Company, Ltd., upholsterers. He alleged that the defendants failed to teach him the upholstery trade as they had contracted. In the course of evidence Inspector Goodacre, Labour Department, said that during the last two or three years employers had found it difficult to find work for their apprentices. Several employees 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 cases had contracts b?pn parcelled..