A LIBERAL EMPLOYER.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 163, 1 October 1881, Page 2

A LIBERAL EMPLOYER.

i"is.'j± nil a SH ■■;'■■ -PIC t ? ■-, . TO TUB EDITOB. '['"' Sißj—^baye oftetf lv 'Aca>Y? of " Sinecu'cu'rists'"' 'getting 1 ! iu' remuneration for iflteir- services "Hotbiiij* a week,, and <board themselves," -•rbnt I was always .under (ythgojimpigsfop^that it was .merely „a_ .little /play LnL.ileasantry, and had no foundation m fact. Tflß lmpre^^^o^eye?/ : fi4S- undergone a cba'flgesince hearing a case which 7 v?as, dealt with, at, the Police Court on f hursday^&frge^heafc, '"vewu Alex:andsr M'Miun, J. R. According to the .ewdence, .the defendanjt who had quar*mmM hf^^efb-iok-keeper.-or raft'e^^lalter^ad' quarvelled with the formeryTsulked, and stopped away—engagertl Mi-7lTheak as book-keeper, re.jpoj^ter,! can i ?rssei',!,andr, collector, at the rraurji ficent 'of iBlTlOs. At the conl ciu^tnvqf f^e fiti^ 'wtek,.*defendant and | : his«Biirtfcin^ a frie«is»^' ; kißied and became good ftiends once more/. so aa excuse ',ha;dlto;.bjS mitnttfactared t« get rid of his suc^ssor, and that was devised by the Jmmped~npLjcharge~- o£~ incompetency. by le tier, 'MrTM' Minn ; maliing cnargesinit wMctfhe i h¥d'hbt u - the moral courage t» raaice^oratl^tflh his-fibtim ; batt^Ratter was told he i might -stop on, no arrangeimeuts,Thowever, being made as to remunerationAiAflerjthe; new-regulation. Con./tlderi^ t /( . that , Mj-, ;Theak was only to je.cejye^fr, ijp&fifpr,, |he multitudinous supposed to fill, and "donßl^e^ g alsq s that^tie position of book--kei&e'r^as'-not the least of any of them, 'beSa^urally cdnciutfed'that the reduction 'thirty shillingg would be , } d«clided to stop, and left lour days, making a claim for the ■"£! JL'Ojgr wages as per agreement, and ■payment at the rate df tea' shiliitigs per day^ for the four days after the breach of iheHsdntract^^S' 103. m all. This de-jfejadan^T-etu^ed to pay, and an appeal tot'se legal tribunal was the result, Mr. /MrMintflpaying. £2 into Court; a» full .compensation ifor-all claims. Mr. Hawl'ios defended' the ; case, but it was quite e.vid£ntch.e:did.not;clearly understand hi» instrvctions, as whtn first asked by the -;M!%i!fc'aW<ai to^ what^porlion of the jClajm-j^the §rst or ijecond week— the £2: w?s supposed to meet, he_hesitated, asserv^r that £l 10s.was r for the first, and tenflings -for th^next 1 ? bat immediately afterwards corrected himself, and stated ■t*ia't £ feis' client w«fs u i»greeable to pay Mr. Theaki nine shillings a day for the four jdays.of.tbe.second ( week r makmff £l 16s, ano the balSnc#to' gb y fo^ards cost of snmmous. :'Kow, this valuation ef Mr^ , Tbeak's.seryices \?ill. strike t one as rather peculiar— lt^is ! admitted thot, quitein* :d^p€nflently. ;o€ ;the, jbtfek-keeping, they w^'.e^w.or^nrae shillings a day, and yet - bylome'tbi^uoTis process of reasoning bi« : six'dSytf 'worfc'^as repbrfet, canvasser, bookrfecepeT", clerk, and proof-reader ,wet;e not worth a peony. > It is true, the Wendant sWbre^plain'tiflfmade a mull of ; jhis,booVO but/it is rather sirange thai neitber^tbe bpoks cont?ming the errorsv nor tfccjtefsan who^ succeeded Mr. Tbeak, wja prodaced m evidence ; further, while idejCeftd/iut'JjoewjtbatjpljimtiffwasabookkeeperJijL profe^ion, and had acted in> l t^jat c^tnae^ty^fqr jthe past three years m *t"his town^ not a soul was sub^oeoaed t(y ! ' : : li is true Mr. Hawkinß, v a8 f m duty bound, asked the pTainhflr questions imputing the charge of TUTOnmeteßrcyr brt~it was ~ emphatically and jpdfjo^nj&v J^?d. and one of Mr. I'&caks former *Spoyers wasprodnced^ whobiSreHthe higbes!: trsl'mony to hi* ahilitgjind^corMCtpess as * book keeper. tamly i for one cannot ratbem either the bfecraUo'rJtogfcalKbttsisi upon which Mr^ Wap,d onlycallot^d^teji^ sbjll ; ngs for six "daTsSvork (witn move dunes to be per/ftf jtrt[fl>A v Ji^* th,ejd;e!;endant voluntarily paid £1 lGs. for fpur^ „ any of x t]iejpay^cHl^rFLP.^ f D .fe ?&& P eeu^ ar case jVhJs papAr;,the. defendant % has the follbwms spec?mW«f hi* muddy enisrmas : |i[ft«%- o i^ M^'eW rofe^e a^irU BO I BBo\ l e/' softly mwv-. ,nsavietLfcfw't«e3a i-aCpuri .to-day,. irhm fi^owea 'e'pliisVp-jW^'^i 1 Co"V;ei t:hd for itr ea Vxtiek n*a!; ? h.'si-i?-i<i got j.btiij ever* litfclolvelps. "If s Ani'W/iTid fihai W<?.W3 voboty good ?**& ». l fe i ii9fiW^Gici ; i i ri«fiiot tobeaispisidt'ieae a?K3^ ISv/olud be iniere<»'in?td]raow\7Veihftirtlie plain-. -isrii u>- witeO33 gained mosfr fry thetat^. . vSbonW-TiVf ir. ?Ehfak accept the guinea, the TOtrm««bh wughfriVthe last sentence ,qjf tbe.-exti:act s -I tvust, will be answered ( f6 t 'Minn'i «ati«fac«ST,. Sfr, lam tlfeXwitness reTetred to, and while I most determinedly claimtd' »y gninea m that y ss3&iJi o & K i <seoa«Mer5 eoa«Mer Mr. Thcak has: udiedpnt ;of just that amount*. & w£HTg4y'jb^,tp^ibappjr s ! if ,!he will accept of it';, and should he; do,**, I will be pleased Wknow that 1 1 frave beeu the means 67;inaMnT-M^f,M ; ¥' nn P a^ wh^ ; l T &niiaef it ifMdtaole J elafm -law and lpgic^b^'aJe^coMiary. Mr. M'M7»n isde»iroo]TSf notpriefcy, V u^ were it not forih'is%b"nifemp6bTie'BNaeer^'WouJd not hare fed--M» vanitf,_in . |bat._re2pect. Mr. /Thpak's^rigj^al' .claim lOs - or a * ihe rate oK3 > v,en.,«bi I J^TA a day. Thw defenctijt has now to. tpayi-.onei s3?iHi»ff, that amount, without bis oMn legal expenses, besides still addmjfco * reputa^tioft which is aui