PROSECUTION FAILS
FARM CONTRACTOR’S . WORK ON SUNDAY (P.A.) NELSON, November 26. "I think I must have regard to the present state of emergency,” said the Magistrate (Mr T. E. Maunsell), -dismissing a charge in the Magistrate’s Court against Charles Ching, farm contractor, for working at his calling on a Sunday at Richmond. “It seems to me that our farming potentiality should be exploited to the full. I don’t think anyone with humane intentions would take exception to the suggestion that it would be desirable for all agricultural land in New Zealand to be tilled daylight to dark for suffering humanity, “The case does not invalue the employment of a servant, and. according to authority, the law aims at preventing that practice, rather than the preservation of the sanctity of the Sabbath." The police prosecuted on a complaint by the Richmond Town Clerk.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24116, 27 November 1943, Page 4
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