ARBITRATION COURT.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, last night.
The Arbitration Court sat to-day to consider broaches of the award against the master butchers. The Court reserved its decision in the case against one butcher of having employed a boy over nineteen years for a week after the award came into force at less than the schedule wage. Several charges against the Gear Company were called on, but were withdrawn, being trifling. The question was whether boys engaged in riding out and general work should be rated as boys or general hands. Judgment was also reserved in the other eases arising out of the employment of boys, the point being whether boys were to be put on a level with a man. The President expressed the opinion in one case that the effect would bo to put men on a level with bo.ys. For having employed a non-unionist to drive his cart without first consulting -an unemployed register, a- working butcher was fined five shillings. The tin plate and sheet metal workers' union filed a reference to the Conciliation Board for enquiry into the dispute with the employers,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 164, 23 July 1901, Page 2
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