AN INTERESTING JUDGMENT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9167, 10 June 1908, Page 7

AN INTERESTING JUDGMENT.

Press Association. Wellington, June 9. According to the evidence in a case heard by Dr. McArthur, S. M., this morning, the effect of the local Arbitration Court of Awards reaches far beyond the district in which they are in force. Harold Daniel King, a carpenter, sued Barr and Shaw, a Wellington firm of builders, for the sum of £1 7s Id.for travelling expenses and balance of wages due under an award of the Arbitration Court. The plaintiff stated that he had gone up to a job of building a house at Awahuri [on behalf of the defendants and had been dismisesd after being there a week. He had disputed with the boss about the amount of wages due. Evidence'was given by the Secretary of the Carpenters’ Union that it was customary for the provisions of awards to extend even as far as Dunedin. When employers had their headquarters in Wellington wages and travelling expenses were paid to and from work according to time occupied.^; His Worship gave for the plaintiff full amount (£1 7s Id) and costs, Bs.