"FOOL LAWS"-A STRIKING CASE.
FEAII TO ENFORCE THEM. At a meeting of the executive of the Wellington biiopkeeners' Association yestoruay the cliairuian (Mr. a. Ji. lieatonj said that a section of tlie Act stated that a partner in any shop was illegally on any premises unless ho had received a permit from i the Inspector oi factories. The shop must be registered in the name of une partner: tho other partner was classed as an assistant. Thera had been so'much exception taken to this clause by various Chambers of Commerce throughout the Dominion that the Labour Department had decided to read the Act so that it was only when the shop was open for business that it was illegal for the partner to be on the premises. When tho shop was closed he could bo there. Mr. \Vardell: It is the duty of tho Labour Department to carry out the Act, not to interpret it.
Mr. Seaton: There is no doubt that had they adhered to the spirit of the Act there would have beeir such an outcry that they would have had to repeal it. Mr. Wardoll: Every session there is a lot of fool legislatibn brought down, and if it suits them they carry it out. If it doesn't they leave it alone. No one ever knows whether they are going to carry out their legislation or not. i
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1111, 26 April 1911, Page 7
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