WORK AND WAGES.
EMPLOYERS FINED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Aleock & Co., billiard-table manufacturers, were to-day lined 20s for failing to pay an apprentice the wages stipulated in the Furniture Trades Award, during the first six months of his third year's working. The defendants had made the deduction to make up for six weeks the apprentice had been absent during his firtst two years, but the Magistrate decided that this was not permissible under the Act under which the indentures were dfrawn up. John Robert Burley, storekeeper, was fined £3 for employing an assistant at 30s weekly, instead of 35a. The defendant explained that he had supplied meals to the employee, making up the extra ss.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 175, 11 December 1912, Page 5
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117WORK AND WAGES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 175, 11 December 1912, Page 5
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