ARBITRATION COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2134, 17 July 1907, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, yesterday. The Arbitration Court is sitting today. All the forenoon was occupied with breaches of awards. Some were dismissed and in others a conviction was recorded without fine or costs. A'l others were dealt with by fine, but none were heavily fined. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The Arbitration Court opened in Christchurch to-day, when a number of enforcement cases were heard. The Christchurch Gas Co. was convicted for failing to pay men weekly but no penalty was imposed and no order mado for costs. F. Beverley was fined £lO, T. F. Kishes £3 and T. Taylor £3 for paying a carpenter less than the minimum wage. J. McIntosh and Frederick Wise were fined 10s for accepting loss than the minimum. J. Knight and the Christchurch Meat Co. were fined £2 each for employing butchers after hours. Then the men were convicted for working extra hours, but no fine war imposed. A. W. Buston, Ltd., war fined £5, Archibald Bros. £5 and A. J. White £2 for failing to ideuture an apprentice. G. Barrell, undertaker, was convicted and ordered to pay costs on a charge of employing non-unionists while unionists were out of employment. G. W. J. Parsons, monumental mason, was fined £5 for paying men less than the award wages. Tho men themselves were fined 10s each for accepting less. 0. W. Harris, coach builder, was fined £2 for failing to pay a youth _ the minimum wage and was convicted only on a charge of employing more than one youth in each department as helpers. Whnyward and Co., livery stable proprietors, admitted a charge of failing to give employes alternate Sundays off. They explained that an agreement had been made with the cognisance of the Union, whereby tho men would get every third Sunday off. The Court convicted defendants but imposed no penalty on jjhe ground that the Union had been a party to the breach.