WORKED ON SUNDAY,

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 151, 28 June 1929, Page 5

WORKED ON SUNDAY,

SALESMAN AND CARRIER FINED. Working at one's trade or calling on Sundays may be an expensive way of filling in the Sabbath hours, as two men —a motor car salesman and a motor carrier—found out when they appeared at the Police Court this morning. F. Coe admitted that he demonstrated a motor car to a likely buyer on a recent Sunday. He. explained that this was the only day on which the car could be shown to the buyer. ' , He was fined £1 and costs. The other Sunday labourer was G. E. Jordan. He also pleaded guilty. Sub-Ispector McCarthy said defendant used his motor truck to shift a load of furniture. An accident occurred to the lorry and the furniture was damaged. For Jordan to work on Sunday was unfair to other carriers. Jordan told the magistrate that the man whose furniture he. shifted could not move on.any other day, as lie was working. "He asked me to shift his stuff on a Sunday, and I did so, not 'wishing to see the man stuck," said. Jordan. "I can tell you that it is not a practice for me to work; on Sundays. After working 15 or 16 hours a day one wants a rest oh Sunday." "All right, but don't do it again," said Mr. Hunt, S.M., in fining Jordan £1, plus coste.