3098
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 79

and such employer may take and employ such apprentice notwithstanding he has the full number of apprentices allowed by this award.

(f.) An employer taking an apprentice shall give notice thereof and the name of the apprentice to the Inspector of Factories within one month after the expiration of the period of probation, and an employer transferring an apprentice to another employer shall similarly, within one week thereof, give notice of such transfer to such Inspector.

(g.) An employer shall not be deemed to discharge his duty towards his apprentice if he fails to keep him at work owing to slackness of work, but such slackness may form a proper ground for transferring him to a master willing to undertake the responsibility of teaching him.

(h.) When an apprentice is discharged for cause the employer shall send notice of the discharge and the cause thereof to the Inspector of Factories.

(i.) Every employer shall be allowed to have one apprentice whether he employs any journeymen or not. If an employer employs more than two journeymen he shall be allowed two apprentices, but not more than two apprentices shall be allowed in any one bakehouse.

(j.) Existing arrangements with or relating to apprentices now serving under indentures shall not be affected by anything herein contained.

Carters.

10. A carter shall not be employed in any bakehouse in connection with the manufacture of any goods in the baking trade, but a baker may deliver bread so long as he does not work more than the prescribed hours.

Under-rate Workers.

11. (a.) Any worker who considers himself incapable of earning the minimum wage fixed by this award may be paid such lower wage as may from time to time be fixed on the application of such worker, after due notice to the union, by the local Inspector of Awards or such other person as the Court may from time to time appoint for that purpose; and such Inspector or person in so fixing such wage shall have regard to the worker’s capability, his past earnings, and such other circumstances as such Inspector or person shall think fit to consider after hearing such evidence and argument as the union and such worker shall offer.

(b.) Such permit shall be for such period, not exceeding six months, as such Inspector or person shall determine, and after the expiration of such period shall continue in force until fourteen days’ notice shall have been given to such worker by the secretary of the union requiring him to have his wage again fixed in manner prescribed by this clause: Provided that in the case of any person whose wage is so fixed by reason of old age or permanent disability it may be fixed for such longer period as such Inspector or other person shall think fit.

(c.) Notwithstanding the foregoing, it shall be competent for a worker to agree with the president or secretary of the union upon such wage without having the same so fixed.

(d.) It shall be the duty of the union to give notice to the Inspector of Factories of every agreement made with a worker pursuant hereto.

(e.) It shall be the duty of an employer, before employing a worker at such lower wage, to examine the permit or agreement by which such wage is fixed.

Preference.

12. (a.) Each employer shall have the right to engage any worker he chooses, but if the worker so employed shall not be a member of the union, such worker within two weeks from the date of his engagement shall become and remain a member of the union.

(b.) The provisions of the foregoing clause shall operate only if and so long as the rules of the union shall permit any worker of good character and sober habits to become a member of the union