MASTERTON EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9559, 4 August 1909, Page 5

MASTERTON EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION.

A meeting of the Masterton Employers Association was held yesterday morning, Mr C. HI. D.iniell presided. It was resolved that it be a recommcndatiun to the New Zealand Employers' Feds-ration that the law with regard to the recovery of debts be altered, so that debtors whose earnings are over £2 per week shall be compelled lo pay a regular amount out of their wages until the debt is discharged; that the Parliamentary Committee of the Chambers of Commerce and the New Zealand ! Employers' Federation be asked to act together, and bring the matter under the notice of the Government; that it be incumbent on the debtor to prove that he is not earning £2 per week, instead of the creditor having to prove that the debtor is earning a sufficient amount to enable the Magistrate to make an order on a judgment summons. It was decided that, in view of the confusion arising out of the fact of neither Empire Day nor the Prince of Wales' Birthday being universally observed as a holiday, and in view of the fact that June 3rd will ultimately become the Sovereign's birthday and therefore a statutory holiday, this Association recommends that employers ask the Court of Arbitration and Chairmen of Conciliation Councils, when reconsidering the awards in which either of these days is included, to insert June 3rd as a holiday, instead of May 24th, ,and also to do so in any future awards. The Association alto recommended that Empire Day be observed on June 3rd. Accounts totalling £3B 18s 8d were passed for payment.