Arbitration Court.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7913, 31 August 1905, Page 2

Arbitration Court.

A Warning to Employers. IPer Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, Aug. 30. When inflicting penalties lor neglecting to indenture apprentices, tho President of the Arbitration Court said the Court,was tired of that form of breach of the Act, which threw an inordinate amount o[ work on the officials. The Court would have to bring employers to a sense- of their duty by heavier penalties. In some cases it was stated that youths declined to be bound, because, with a fair, knowledge of their trade,' 1 they could get Ibetter wages under permits than as apprentices. In one case a carpenter was fined' £2 for employing two foreigners at a shilling less than the award rate, they being unable to speak English. Respondent said that lie discharged the men, who were now working (or 5s a day for someone else, under a permit, A baker was fined £1 for working as foreman for less than the award rate. Master-bakers were fined £2 each for setting carters to work in the bakehouse. In another case the employer was fined £3 and the employee ■£l for a similar breach. The employer said he could not indenture the youth at the time, as he expected to be going out of business,