LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1848, 31 August 1906, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

PRESS ASSOCIATION Ashburton, last night. At a sitting of the Arbitration Court here tq-day a linn of painters was fined iGd and costs for employing two' apprentices to one journeyman. On the application of the Painters’ Union two firms who had not been included as parties to a recent award wore joined, There were three cases for breach of award against Ashburton Woollen Mills, for failing to grant a yearly increase in wages. A fine of £5 was inflicted for paying half rate. In tho second case the fine was £5, the judge stating that it liad not been a breach, but it liad been distinctly proved there liad been failure to make an arrangeinent for two looms. In the new mode of working adopted provision had not been made for the lower rate of working for the second loom. The third case ivas for increasing tljo length of flannel without increasing the rate of pay, and was dismissed,

Auckland, last nigh

After numerous remands, Walter M. Maxwell, a Cambridge storekeeper, who had carried on business in the R.C.E. Stores in 1904, appeared before Mr E. W. Dwyer, S M., on a series of charges of falsification of books, and to the conduct of business on a fictitious capital of Jf‘oooo. After evidence bad been hoard, Mr Maxwell reserved his defence, and pleading not guilty to all the charges, was committed for trial,