ARBITRATION COURT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 12 August 1908, Page 8

ARBITRATION COURT.

(Per Press Association.)

INVERCAItGILL, August 11. . Tho Arbitration Court sat hero today, and disposed of casss as follows :— Caso against. Masters and Son, for taking orders for tailor-made suits when not occupiers of tailoring workshops, was dismissed.'. Tailors charges against .ivro other clothiers were withdrawn.

J. T- firookor (tailor) was fined £3 for employing more girl apprentices than allowed by the award. The charge against J W. Watson, of engaging a male'apprentice without notifying the inspector within a week of engagement, was dismissed.

Tho Nightcaps Coal Company was charged with employing five shift mrm at under tho award ra,te of wagis. Tho case rests on the definition of "shift men." .-. .-...'

■ EH. '^yi-nhnore was fined £5 for .employing a-compositor at less than the award rate of wages. ■ Tho cornposjtor was fined £1 for •accepting thesa wages -Moor and Sons, eawmillers, were .charged with employing ;a stoker raid :engine-driver at less than the, award iate. Tlio cos 9 was dismissed. In threase "of the engino-driver, r&s tho work 'was done under exceptional circumstances, a breach was-.simply .recorded, provided respondents psid arrears..

J. Parwcntsr, saddler, was fined, £2 for"employing a journeyman",at.-.-less than the?, award rate,. and the iemployeq was fmt'd 10s. " ? :-. ;

H,. Cox,'-sawniiller, was fined' £3 for employing a man partly .as s, bushmg,n. and partly -asian engine-driver, .at. less. than tlio award rates. . .'■.

In tho Sawmill Union's application for an' award tho .Court suirgosted a. conference^ but the parties intimated that an 'agreement' was hopeless.