BUTCHERS IN COURT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1032, 24 July 1930, Page 16

BUTCHERS IN COURT

BREACHES OF AWARD WAGES-BOOK FALSIFIED From Our Own Correspondent PUKEKOHE. Wednesday. Two firms of butchers, and as a. ployee, were proceeded against in tbt Pukekohe Court today by the inspector of awards, Mr. J. 11 allows. X. L. Brown (Mr. M. R. C-dersot admitted failing to keep a wages lot overtime book, and failing to pay tat award wages. The inspector said defendant has employed a 17-year-old youth for tint or four months for from three to fsc hours daily, and paid him 17s Cd , week. No entry had been made k the wages book. Mr. Grierson explained that, at tat request of an elder brother, who wt; emploved by Brown, the boy aasisuf In the delivery of parcels for a lei davs. Defendant could not afford a pay him the award wage. Defendant was fined £ 1 on each <t the charges, and ordered to pay XI costa. A charge of making a false entry in the wages book, and failing to ply award wages, was preferred agansi Beatty and Marshall (Mr. E. G. Foster). John Smith (Mr. A. Fotherirgham). an employee, admitted accepting less than the award rate of ways Mr Hollows said Smith had bt*c employed by Beatty and Marshall as, from February. 1927. He commesxec at a wage of £2 10s. which waa acreased to £3, and later to £! Its The minimum award wage for a gmeral hand was £4 16s. and if Smith was engaged in slaughtering, as he era he was. then his wages should her; been £ 5 ss. The wages book wa* no: available when witness visited ’he shop, but was posted a week lam. Smith had signed for £4 14a, tai later, as a compromise, the firm piii him £BO arrears. Mr. Fotheringham. for Smith, alii he had returned ho in on the deatl of his father, and could not obuia emplovment other than from Beaut and Marsha.!, and had to tale what was offering. He admitted acting for £4 16s when receiving tea titan that amount. „ Mr. Foster, who appeared forßenri and Marshall said Smith agreed J* commence work at £2 10s a wees, is he was unemployed. The wage toe increased to £3 10s subsequently. » addition, he received free meals, o* use of horses and implements foi mg the small farm owned by »» mother, and time off. Mr. F. H. Levien, fcl.M-. agreed the case was a serious one, inamiio as an effort had been made to the conditions in the award made -» protect labour. The youth and tin firm could have made applicatioe J pav lower than the award wage. Smith was fined £2. and costa El* Beatty and Marshall a similar a**r-l On the charge of making a falaa eao . the firm wap fined £5, with *" costs.