WORE AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 274, 11 April 1913, Page 5

WORE AND WAGES.

THE PUPONGA STRIKE. DRUNKEN LAWLESSNESS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Nelson, Thursday. The correspondent of the Mail wires •'from Puponga, details of Tuesday's outrage. Numbers of drunken men attacked the house of a mine deputy and violently assaulted him. He had practically to run for his life. The dwelling was then fired and burned to the ground. The President of the Miners' Union anticipates that the trouble will end without further disturbance.

A MOOT POINT. Dunedin, Last Night. An interesting point was raised at the Magistrate's Court this afternoon during the hearing of a case in which Inspector Hollows, of the Labor Department, sought to recover from George Moody, hairdresser, £lO as a penalty for a breach of the Dunedin Hairdressers' Association's award, in that from January 30 to M;ireh 5 he employed two apprentices to two journeymen, the proportion of apprentices to journeymen being more than stipulated in the award. Mr. Payne appeared for the defendant. Mr. Hollows explained that the defendant had two saloons, and that in one saloon two journeymen and two apprentices were employed, while two journeymen were employed in the other. The Department contended that the saloons were distinctly separate, and the employees in each shop were exclusively employed in either shop. Mr. Payne submitted that the defendant carried on business in two shops, and by reason of that fact had two journeymen, besides himself, in each shop, and if he had five journeymen in his business lie was entitled to have apprentices. He contended that the award was between employers and employees in respect of trade, and not an award in respect of business. After hearing argument, Mr. Widdowson, S.M., reserved his decision. I