ARBITRATION AWARDS DEFIED.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10064, 4 February 1909, Page 4

ARBITRATION AWARDS DEFIED.

(Per Pr.Ess Association".) Wellington, February 5. Dr M'Arthur, S.M.. sitting under the authority of the new Arbitration Act, heard .1 number of enforcements of industrial award cases to-day. Donald M'Donald, butcher, ; was ' fined • £lO, for employing a non-unionist-. J. Chittenden, butcher, for employing more youths than allowed under the award, was. fined', £lO. Chapham and Co. were ■ fined- £lO for a similar offence. 11. Ramson, builder, was fined ' £lO for employing a ■ non-unionist when members of the union, were unemployed. C. G.- R-. M"Mee, charged ' with a breach of the preference • clause of the builders' award, and- 'with not paying wages weekly , was fined £lO -on • each charge. J. Odlin and Co., for employing a greater proportion of assistants to journeymen than is prescribed in the plumbers' award, were fined £lO. • P Wool ton, butcher, was fined £3 for-pay-ing: an - employee less wages than stipulated in the award. The- employee in question was fined 10s. Peter Jackson and Son, for. failing. to indenture an' apprentice to.the furniture ira'de, were fined' £lO. • Griffiths and Jones, plumbers, were fined £lOl for. under-paying an employee. Mrs A. Holley, restaurant-keeper, '.was fined-30s on c-acli of two charges of underpaying employees. Defendant had ■ pcid : the stipulated amounts since , being summoned, hence his Worship's leniency. T. Ashman, hotel proprietor,. was fined. £lO for employing a night porter longer than the stipulated hours, and' for failing to pay. overtime. Oates, Standidge and Co., painters, were fined £3 for falling to pay certain employees within the time stipulated by the. award. The 2feucha,tel Asphalt Company was fined £5 for. employing a non-nnionist when unionists were available. J.' Standidge and Co.) for dismissing an employee because he was entitled to the benefit of an award, was fined'£s.