EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS. Christchurch, Nov. 2.
At the R.M. Court, to-day, before Mr O Whiteford, R.M., and Mr R. Westonra George Tombs and George H. Whitcombe were charged with keeping at work during prohibited hours, to wit, at 2.55 p.m. on (Saturday, October 27, eight young women, Alice Tucker, Emma Minify, Kate Collinson, Maud Baker, Mary L. Bailey, Emma Blakely, Ellen Farmer, and Mabel Buckley ; and. on another information with keeping at work three young persons, Herbert Williams, John Findlay, and Thomas McKay. Mr Kippenberger appeared for the defendants, ana said they wished the matter settled apart from any technical objections and points of law. Defendants wished to get a magisterial decison on the question whether young persons could be employed at folding and. binding pamphlets, etc., on Saturday afternoons. After hearing evidence, their Worships decided against the defendants. The Act gave power to work on newspapbrs on "Saturdays, but they could not hold that the work "done on this occasion had anything to do withnewspapers. Defendants would be fined Is in eaoh case and 7s costs.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 314, 7 November 1888, Page 4
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178EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS. Christchurch, Nov. 2. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 314, 7 November 1888, Page 4
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