ARBITRATION COURT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9175, 26 August 1908, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

BREACHES OF AWARDS. BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, August 25. A number of cases of breaches of awards were dealt with by the Arbitration Court to-day. Walter Gandar, hotelkeeper, was fined £2 for paying a porter less than the award rate of wages, and Percy Sander&on, the porter, was fined 10s for accepting the same. W. A. Kennedy, Wellington manager of the Union Steamship Company, admitted that by an oversight he had neglected to have an apprentice indentured. Back pay had been made up and indentures issued. A breach was recorded, defendant undertaking to refund the expenses of the Union concerned. Begg Bros., grocers, were fined £5 and costs for employing girls as shop assistants at loss than the award rates. J. Young was fined £2 on a similar charge. j Henry Dodley and others, hotel proprietors, were fined £2 for employing a porter a* below the award rate, a breach being recorded against the porter. E. W. Mudgway admitted having employed a carter in his bakehouse. Mr Le Cren, representing the Labour Department, said the carter in question was a lad of 17 years. He started work in the bakehouse at 5.30 a.m., and during the day went out with the cart, leaving off work at 7 p.m. A fine of £5 was imposed F. A. Laws, saddler, was fined £2 for having failed to give the necessary notice that he had taken jn an apprentice, and with failing to give notice of the dismissal of the said apprentice. Meyer and Illingworth were fined £5 for breaking the preference clause of the carpenters' award. Mrs B. Sloch was fined £2 for employing a kitchen and pantry hand in the Geisha tea-rooms at less than prescribed by the cooks and waiters' award. It was shown that the girl in question was only about twelve years of age. E. A. Hitchings, Eade Bros., H. Crump, and R. A. Wakelin were ordered to pay expenses for employing non-unionist carpenters. Peter T. Carnie was fined £2 for failing to pay the wages stipulated by the ccoks and waiters' award. Breaches of the same award were recorded against W. H. Philp for employing waitresses for longer hours than stated in the award, the girls being also convicted of breaking the award. J. B. Innes was fined £2 for employing an apprentice not properly indentured. E. Norton and Co., tailors, were fined £2 for sending out work against the terms of the award. S. Philp, butcher, was fined £5 for not supplying an employee with 5s worth of meat per week from December, 1907, to May, 1908. Henry Rosson, the employee concerned, was fined £l- - C. Young was fined £2 for failing to allow two employees two hours to set their tools in order on their discharge. J. C. Brown was fined £1 for a breach of the carpenters' award. A. Peurce was fined £3 for employing a workman at Is per hour. The workman, Bayford, was ordered to pay the costs. Mrs Euphemia Smith was fined £3 for keeping an employee working longer hours than allowed by th.? cooks and waiters' award. T. F. Deekin was fined £3 for not paying a cook the prescribed rate of wages. , Gannaway and Co., were fined £2 for a breach of the wharf labourers' award in not engaging labour at the place fixed.