ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 199, 12 August 1908, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

• ,SITTINGS AT IN VKRCAXIGXLL. 13v Telegraph.—X'ress Association. lnvercargill, Last Night. The Arbitration Court sat here today. The casu against Masters and Hon, for taking orders for tailor-made ■suits when not occupiers of tailoring workshops was dismissed, similar charges against' two other clothiers were withdrawn. J.-T. Brooker, tailor, was lined £3 for employing more girls as apprentices than allowed by the award. J. AV. Watson ,\vas, charged with engaging a male apprentice without notifying the Inspector within a week of engagement. There was a conflict of evidence, and the charge was dismissed. The Nightcaps Coal Co. was charged witih employing five shift men : at under the award rate of wages. Decision was reserved. E. 11. WhilmoiT was fined lio for employing a composi-. tor at less than the award rate of wages. The compositor was fined £-1 for accepting these wages. Moor and Sons, sawmillcrs, were charged ; with employing a stoker and engine-driver at less than the award rate. The maim named in the information as stoker was not engaged as such, and the case was dismissed. In the wise of the en-gine-driver, as the work m°" c ■ of ■exceptional circumstances, "was simply recorded, provided- respondent. paid the arrears. J.' Panventer, saddler, -,vaa lined £2 for employing ft journeyman at than the award rates, 'and tlw employee was lined 10s. H, Cox, sawniiller, "was lined £3 for employing a 'man partly as bushmnn and partly as engine-driver at less than the award rates. In the Sawmillers Union, application for an award, ffli? Court suggested a conference, lint tlrparties intimated than an agreement was hopeless.