Breach of Apprenticeship.
A Hard Case
(Per Press Association.) NAPIER, Aug. 31. A somewhat peculiar case was tried at the Magistrate's Court to-day, when an apprentice named Charles Davis, who had left Napier for Sydney, and had been arrested and brought back from Auckland, was charged by Ms employer, Robert Holt with having absented himself from service before his apprenticeship was fulfilled, For tlie defence it was alleged Miat the lad's father having died, his mother was leaving for Sydney, and desired to take the lad with her.
The plaintiff having declined to allow the 'boy's indentures to be tancelled, the Bench stated there was no option but to order Davis to return to work, and to pay the costs incurred in bringing him i'jack from Auckland, It is stated that the ease is the first of the kind that has been heard in the colony^
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7914, 1 September 1905, Page 3
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146Breach of Apprenticeship. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7914, 1 September 1905, Page 3
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