"MILES BEHIND ENGLAND"
♦ COMMENT ON NEW ZEALAND LEGISLATION (PK*SS ASSOCIATION TELIORAM.) WELLINGTON, November 16. A statement that New Zealand was miles behind England in some of its legislation was made during the hepring- of a case in the Supreme Court to-dav. The question of whether the right" at common law to claim damages was available to an apprentice whose contract incorporated statutory terms and remedies was under discussion at the time, and it was stated that in a previous case the Full Court, in dealing with apprentices, had held that an apprentice was limited by the Apprentices Act to the remedies imposcu thereby, because that act and amendments formed a complete code governing apprentice matters. It was argued by counsel for the defendants that all possible contingencies were meant to be covered by the 1923 act, and that if any further contingencies arose they were met by its amendments. "We are miles behind England in this legislation, which, you would think, would be altered here," said Mr Justice Reed. "For instance, you have the protection of miners working in a coal mine. We are miles behind England in that. Attention has been drawn to it, but no alteration has been made." ______________
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21324, 17 November 1934, Page 7
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