WORK AND WAGES. AN APPRENTICE'S WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 258, 1 May 1912, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

AN APPRENTICE'S WAGES.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Monday. Reserved judgment was given in the Magistrate's Court to-day in the case of the Wellington Furniture Union v. Charles Goldman, upholsterer, to enforce a penalty for alleged breach of the furniture trades award. Goldman, it is alleged, paid an apprentice in his second years 10s instead of 12s as provided by the award. The case was dismissed, Dr. McArthur holding that as the apprentice had been indentured during the existence of the previous award, the present award did not affect him. THE GREEN ISLAND DISPUTE. Dunedin, Last Night. In connection with the dispute at Green Island, Mr. Robert Hill, mine manager, said that on further complaints being received from the men he and Mr. W. L. Christie went down the mine, and decided to place a jig on one of the headings, but when Mr. James Christie, the consulting engineer (then absent) returned, he said that the scheme was unpracticable, and it was abandoned. The road about which the men were complaining as having too severe a gradient, had been used for three years, during which it had improved, and it was a peculiar thing that it was only at the present time that the men started to complain. The men held a meeting this evening, and decided to do nothing further, but await developments. The following resolution was carried: "That this meeting considers that the men cannot truck and road until a jig is put there."