A CIRCUS HAND.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10160, 9 February 1911, Page 7

A CIRCUS HAND.

.;!,'■-.. SUES FOR WAGES. •'" i ' BUI' DOES,N®T -APP'EiB-j "-. In tut...,.- Magistrate's ;Co v:: : . . at' Greytown North yesterday 'before Mr; ■L.'-G: Reid, S.M., Giuirhs. Fcnival Davies, circus hand, -siied Philip Wirth, as proprietor of Wirth. Brdfjl' -.\ Circus, for the sum of £1 18k ff<V ! balance of wages andvwroiigful V'i> missal. Mr R. Ward "Tate appeared for plaintiff, and Mr C. A. Pownall for defendant, - The plain,-; tiff; himself did not' put- in an-apt- ' pearance. /;: _ ..■'■■/ ;" A ■'.■•'•;.. ■,;

. Mr Pownall bbjected to.ithe case. being struck out in default of. plaintiff' (3 . appearance, aridy stated that Mr Wirthi had: spared pcmse in Counsel I .f rom'Ma s-i terton,-.--and his secretary ! and manager and another.witness from Wair pawa to make, an" example of the plaintiff. The men'were,in the habit; of deserting at critical junctures] with the circus, and "then, as in the! present case, following Mr.' \Virth up i with .an immediate summons directly ' his circiis had gone further away in the hope • that he would pay sooner :tllaii_ contest increase. y MrJSVirtJi,; however, was deternirn.ed no -"matter whatever theXcbot. was, to'meet each Of these cases on ( own basis. In tfie. present case, \Mr- .Pownall stated that the plaintiff had been, -fined for being drunkvat'' Nelson, ■warned'* again - and threatened r'v.yith dismissal for being. di;.unk and jab--' sent from duty Hutt, and immediately afterwards ■'• was. drunk and refused duty, at- , Featherston; whereupon he was sent about' his business. The defendant Company treated their "men well, and- were not disposed to be trifled with. Therefore counsel for Mr Wirth .applied for judgment for defendant in I order that the: proceedings might be -terminated.finally. .

: Mv::.R. Ward Tate offered no objection, and his Worship agreed with" the remarks of counsel for defendant, and entered judgment for defendants (Wirth Bros.) with costs £8 Is 6d, for which a warrant will be applied for at the earliest, opportunity. Messrs Wirth Bros, wish it to be understood that they contested trie case not for the amount, but as a ' matter of principle, purely to show their men that after being well treated they cannot do quite as they like with the proprietors, and they trust that the general public will agree with them.