BREACH OF AN AWARD
BOTH PARTIES FINED. At the Petone Magistrate's • Court, yesterday, before Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S M., an action to recoyer tho sum or £20, from T. G. Reid, for two alleged breaches of .the Saddlers Award, was taken by the.lnspector of Awards (Mr. R. A. Bollard). The defendant, who-,did not appear, wrote, to the effect that he had employed two men who were not skilled journeymen, and he did not think he was committing a breach by paying them £2 10s. per week, instead of the award rate, £2 16s. He had employed tho men mainly owing to the scarcity of skilled workers. Mr: Bollard; who characterised the breach as a.deliberate one, asked the Magistrate to allow, the full amount claimed. Defendant had saved about £12 by employing the two men in question. Tho Magistrate said ho did not feel justified, in view of defendant's letter, in imposing the penalty asked for. Defendant would have to pay £5 in each case. The two men employed by defendant, Mark Parr and Thomas Lowry, were also proceeded 'against for accepting employment under tho awaTd. rates of nay. After warning, tho defendants the Magistrate imposed a penalty of 10s. in each. case.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2209, 23 July 1914, Page 8
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204BREACH OF AN AWARD Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2209, 23 July 1914, Page 8
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