BREACH OF AWARD.
HEAVY FINES IMPOSED. (Per Press Association.! GISBORNE. November 15. At tho Magistrate’B Court, Giovanni Vita and Gennara Marsicano, tea-room proprietors, were charged with a breach of the hotel and restaurant employees’ award. They were further charged with making wilful false entries in the wages book. The Labour Department’s inspector, Air Whiting, said tho defendants informed six waitresses that unless all agreed to accept 32s 6d two would he discharged. After 32s tki had been accepted the defendants continued to enter 37s 6d in the wages book. Defendants pleaded guilty. Their counsel said that business was falling off, and if hands were dismissed it meant unemployment. The Magistrate, Mr Barton, refused to accept the plea. On the first charge defendants were fined £9, and on the sec< nd charge £3O.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16583, 16 November 1921, Page 5
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