HOTEL EMPLOYEES AWARD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1062, 27 February 1911, Page 2

HOTEL EMPLOYEES AWARD.

'.-,:, . CHABGES IN AUCKLAND.■■-;.;.: /-./ .'.:' (By Telegraph-Press Association.)., ■ ':■ _.- :..,' Auckland, February'26.-^:-^ At the Magistrate's Court on.Saturday - ; morning, before Mr. C. C. Kettle, S.M., ;;' the .Inspector of Factories'(Mr. J.Bailey) proceeded against 'A. Raynes,' lio- '..: }%■' 'ensee of the MohrDesire Hotel, Takapuna,, .•'.<. for an alleged '.breacli~o£>the hotel'and *' restaurant;; employees' award- fe*.hotel . :• workers, in that he had in his employ ■•;. - oh or/about October 24, 1910, Sarah Eud- r / . dick,'.employed as'a'second hand in.ithe .V ■■ kitchen, and failed to,pay.her the -.wages;.:.?■as provided by the award.- '•' ..-s^.'i: Dr. Bamford appeared for the defend-'v; ant, and the defence was that the girl was .-• '■■ employed as a pantrymaid,'and■ had not ■ -y, ■:' done kitchen work.;.-." "z- l 2 '-\C i ,v. r : 'J- '...';.'"" . His Worship : was. of the .'opinion- that -,V;' the difficulty would have to 'be settled by , fi- : each employee having a card handed to i*v him defining his duties. ; His Worship- 1 "4'; held;:'■ from. the. evidence, that; the- girl ; /,;• was doing the work of a second cook, and '••'<£. was entitled to 'the increased wages. These troubles would always occur till A soma ,'efibrt was made to define "what the various duties of the different hands were. r .J Defendant was convicted and fined ■£?.• / 'i ; The same defendant admitted.a breach ~: in not keeping a proper wages and over- .. j. time book, but stated he was doing so- >■ now. . ■'"','•■' '•'• "'• •;''■' ■•?'' His Worship 6aid that this was a far .v.. more-'serious matter', and he was snr-'-"i;;-: priced that a hotel-keeper did cot enter ". his wages book up properly.. In this : " ;. cn=e he would be convicted and fined ' v The law provided for: JESO,, and -he would : < bo entitled to impose-this.';-.,-."lf these ; y breaches continue," said his • 'Worship, "I will have to go on increasing the ■'.■'.' until the'high-water mark is reached." ~ -'■ . Costs amounting . to. . were .given : - / against defendant .. .;.;'.., ; \-';. :