WORK AND WAGES.
'Press Assn.—By Telegraph.—Copyright.) . REDUCED HOURS FAVORED. Received April 20, 11.3 8 p.m. LONDON, April 26. The ballots at Woolwich arsenal were very largely favorable to five days work weekly.
Press Association. INTERESTING WAGES CASE. AUCKLAND, yesterday. A case in which a fireman named Robert Kerr sued M.- G. McGregor, as executor of tlic will of the late William Alexander McGregor, for £3l 18s, alleged balance of wages, was I if; fore Air. Kettle, S.AI. His Worship said this was a case in which the plaintiff had been engaged at a rate of wages lower .than that fixed by the awards. The plaintiff in bringing the action, had taken advantage of a Supreme Court desision, t > the effect that when a workman agreed to accept less than the amkoil lit fixed by the award he could at anv time afterwards sue for the balance. He (Air. Kettle) held that such a claim was void, and that no person who entered into such an agreement as referred to could recover the full award wages m that Court. He refused to hear the case, upholding the contentioivtliat proceedings should have bcp.uHaken in e court of summary jurisdiction, and that the Alagistratc’s Court was not such a Court.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2065, 27 April 1907, Page 3
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