Legality Of Bonus

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 9, 24 March 1947, Page 2

Legality Of Bonus

“Is that legal or illegal?” asked Mr Justice Tyndall in the Court of Arbitration in Dunedin, when a witness mentioned that certain employees, becoming dissatisfied with the dirty work they were required to perform, had been given a bonus of an extra 2/6 a day by their employer. Witness replied that he did not know whether the approval of the Wages Commission had been obtained. Another witness said that he personally had not asked the commissioner to approve his receipt of the bonus. “I am not going to say you should have refused the bonus,” commented His Honour, “but it seems that you are guilty of illegally receiving it, and your employer is guilty of illegally giving it, in contravention of the stabilisation regulations. But it is not the worry of this court.”

Natural Endowments A tour of the outskirts of Taihape brings home to the visitor that town’s good fortune in possessing a number of very fine native forest reserves. Citizens of that centre have reason to be grateful to imaginative “city fathers,” who decreed that these reserves should remain a perpetual heritage for the youth of the town. Strikingly evident is the absence of vandalism, which has marred many a beauty spot in New Zealand, and there are other indications that the townspeople of Taihape have legitimate pride in the centre’s national endowments.