ARBITRATION COURT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9164, 12 August 1908, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

BREACHES OF AVVAKD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. INVERCARGILL, August 11. The Arbitration Court, sitting here to-day, disposed of cases an follows: — A case against Masters and Son, 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 Similar charges against two other clothiers were withdrawn.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 fined £3 for employing more girl* apprentices than was allowed by the award. J. W. Watson was charged with engaging a male apprentice without notifying the Inspector within a week of his engagement. The charge wa? dismissed. The Nightcaps Coal Company was charged with employing five shiftmen at under the award rate of wages. Decision was reserved. E. H. Whitmore was fined £5 for employing a compositor at less than the award, rate of wages, and the p.ompogitor was fined £1 for accepting these wages. Moor and Sons, sawmillers, were charged with employing a stoker and engine-driver at less than award rate of wages. The man named in the information as stoker was not engaged as such, and the case was (lis missed. In the case of the enginedriver, as the work was one of exceptional circumstances, a breach simply was recorded, provided the respondents pay the arrears. J. Parwinterv, saddler, was fined £2 for employing a journeyman at less than the award rates, and the employee was fined 10s. H. Cox, sawmiller, was fined £3 for employing a man partly as bushman and partly as engine-driver at leas than the award rates in a sawmill