ALLEGED AWARD BREACH.
” A MASTERTON CASE. <By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. At the Arbitration Court to-day the Inspector of Awards at Masterton is proceeding against the Wairarapa Electric Power Board, claiming £5 penalty. Tor failing to pay the rate of wages prescribed by the award. The case wa3 brought to enable the .Board to explain its difficult position, i-and to obtain a ruling from the Court. A number of youths were paid at -fthe rate of 30s per week, and were employed in the same manner as apprentices, doing certain work of ithe apprentices, but not all of it. They did not hold an under-rate workers-' permit. "They were termed assistants. It was submitted that as the youths covered by the description of apprentices or under-rate workers, and the Board refused to con.aider them as apprentices, then ' they were entitled to the minimum wage prescribed for journeymen.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 March 1925, Page 5
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