HOURS OF TRADING.
CASE OF MILK VENDORS. AN IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Tho provisions of the Shops and Offices Act in regard to the hours of work apply to milk vendors, according to a reserved judgment delivered by Mr. Reid, S.M., in the Magistrate's' Court to-day. The magistrate said he must look at the general purport of the statute as a whole. It was a remedial Act, and its object was to regulate and ameliorate tho working conditions of employees in shops and officee, and analagous businesses. It was clear that, generally speaking, the Act was intended to apply to milkmen, and it would be unreasonable to hold that the defendant could escape the statute. If he ocu'd do so he could compete on unequal terms with other milk vendors, who conducted their businesses in such a manner as to bring them in any case, within tho scope of the Act. Tho magistrate contended that a broad construction should bo placed on Section 30, and, therefore, he held that the defendant must bo convicted; A fine of £2 was imposed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 37, 13 February 1937, Page 12
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183HOURS OF TRADING. Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 37, 13 February 1937, Page 12
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