LABOUR

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13682, 26 August 1908, Page 3

LABOUR

THE ""ARBITRATION COURT. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 25. At, the Arbitration Court to-day Walter Gamkr, hotelkeei>er, was iined £2 for paying a porttr Jess than the award rate of wages, and Percy tjandeieou, the .porter, was lined 10s ior accepting tlie same. ■\V. A. Kennedy, Welliugucn manager of the Union i5.!i." Company, admitted, that by an overnight he liad ntg'.ee'ted to have an apprentice indentured; back pay had l«cn made up, and the indenturus issued. A breach was recorded, defendant undertaking to refund the expenses of the Union concerned. Begg Bros., grocers, were fined £5 and costs for employing girls as shop assistants at leas than thu award rates. J. Young was fiuttt £2 on a similar charge. lienry Dodiey and others, hotel proprietors, were liiK-d £2 for employing a porter at below the award late, a breach being recorded against the porter. E. W. Mudgway admitted having employed a carter in his bakehouse. Mr LeCren, Labour Department, said the cartvr iu question was 17 years of age. lie started work in the bakehouee at 5.50 a.m., and during the day went cut with the cart leaving off work at 7 p.m. A line of £5 was imposed. T. A. Laws, saddler, was fined £2 for having failed to give the ncoessury notice that he had taken on au apprentice and with failing la giv« notice of the dismissal of .said apprentice. Meyer and llliugwcrth weie lined £5 for breaking the preference clause of the carpenters' award. Mrs B. Sloch was lined £2 for employing a kitchen 'and pantry hand in the Geisha tea rooms ub i«ii ply than was prescribed by the cooks and waiters' award. It was shown that the girl in quustion was only about 12 i years of age. E. A. Hitchings, Eade Bros., H. Crump and R. M. Wakelin, we're, ordered to pay expenses for employing non-unionist carpenteis. Peter T. Carnie was fined £2 for failing to pay the wages stipulated by the cooks- and waiters award. Breaches of tlie same award wire recorded against W. H. Philip for employing waitresses for longer hours than stated in the award, the girls being also convicted of breaking the award. <J. B. lnnes wasfined £2 for employing an apprentice not properly indentured. E. Norton and Co., tailors, were fined £2 for sending out work against the terms of the award. S. Philip, butcher, was fined £5 for not supplying an employee - with 5s worth of meat per week from December, 1907, to May, 1908. Henry Rosson, the employee concerned, was fined £l. E. C. Young was fined £2 for failing to allow two ployee's two hours to set their tools in order on their discharge. J -C. Brown was fined £1 for a breach of the carpenters' award. A. Pearce was fined £2 for employing a. workman at Is per hour, the workman (Percival Bayford) was ordered to pay costs. Mrs Euphemia ;Smith was- fined £3 for keeping an. employee working - longer Lours than was allowed by the cooks and waiters award. F. F. Dakin was fined £3 for nob paying a cook the prescribed xate of wages. Gannaway

and Co. were fined £2 for a breach of the wharf labourers' award in not engaging labour at the place fixed.