ALLEGED BREACH OF AN AWARD.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3107, 4 February 1909, Page 5

ALLEGED BREACH OF AN AWARD.

CHARGE AGAINST A PRIEST

By Telegraph—Press Association NAPIER, February 3.

At the Magistrate's Court to-day, before MrS.E. McCarthy,S. M., James Goggan, a Catholic Priest, was charged with committing a breach of the Napier Painters' and Decorators' Award, in employing a lad named John Connell without first employing a journeyman as required by the award, and also with employing the lad without first having him duly indentured.

The inspector of awards said defendant instructed Connell, his house boy, to do some painting at the new Catholic Infants' School. The secretary of the Painters' Union approached defendant and pointed out that the boy was not apprenticed. The defeandant refused to apprentice the boy, and said he woald contest the matter.

The solicitor for the defendant said that the boy was an orphan, and had been taken in hand by Father Goggan, who employed him at the rate of 29s a weeK.

Father Goggan said a good deal of painting work had been done by contract, but as a practical maw assisted by the boy executed some of the painting of the school, legal questions were raised, and the Magistrate reserved his judgment.