NOMINAL PENALTY ONLY
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Company's Breach of Award EMPLOYEES ON ■ RATIONED WORK •
(By Telegraph —
DUNEDIN, Last Night. A purely nominal penalty of one shilling in eacb case was imposed by Mr. Bartholomew, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court this morning wlien he gave a reserved judgment in proceedings against Smith- and Smith, Ltd., for breaches of tan award. The Magistrate said that, owing to slackness,. the company was faced with the alternatives of dismissing hands r rationing work, and the works manager, after a discussion with the leading hand, who was on the union executive, decided on a rationing sclieme. Jn this particular award no provision was made for* sliort time or rationing, so that a breach of the award must be recorded. . > It was unfortunate that the company's praiseworthy efforts in, the employees' interests should entail a breach, and obyiously only a nominal penalty should be exacted. * •
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 40, 10 November 1937, Page 6
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