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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 5, 7 January 1895, Page 4

Owners of dogs require to procure collar*! ia soon as possible, in order to save trouble, aa unwonted activity apparently nervadeß the dog registration department this year. Already Mr Garrard is ab work tsatching collarlesfe dogs, and although tho (Council offices have so far been open only three days this year, still over 32 collars &aye bden issued. ' Usually fourteon days' .-grace has. been allowed, bub this year this *Soes nob seem to be the rule. Reports have reached the Inspector of from several quarters thab shopkeepers are withholding from their assist--Bnts the full hour for dinner, to which the latter are entitled to under the new Acb.

The Shops and Shop Assistants Acb very * definitely states in clause 16 thab shop assistants Bhall be entitled to one hour for dinner, and the Inspector, before bhe coming into force of the measure made this provision so widoly known that it can hardly be from ignorance that the offenders are transgressing the law. Whether they ara doing so wittingly or unwittingly, it is woll for them to know that this clause is &k one that tho Inspector has been parHi ticularly instructed to see carried oub to ml tbe letter, and we are given to understand W that ho intends to be most vigorous in the I . discharge of.his duby.