NOT A SUNDAY
THE ANZAC DAY ACT
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
ROTORUA, 26th May.
• A case of unusual, importance was heard in the Magistrate's Court to-day before Mr. Patersou, S.M. '• .
Several shopkeepers were charged under the Shops and Offices Act with keeping open on the statutory halfholiday in the week in which Easter Monday and Anzac Day fell. The Shops and Offices Act provides that where shops are closed on two working days during the week they may remain open on the day of the statutory half-holi-day. A "w.orking" .day was defined by the Act as any day other than Sunday.. .•..''■■ The.. Labour Department contended that the effect of tire Anzae Day. Act, was to make Anzac Day a Sunday, and therefore was not a working day as defined by -the Shops and Offices Act. -■.'..
After referring'to the various Acts involved, the Magistrate dismissedsthe information upon the grounds that the Anzac. Day Act provided that the day should bo observed as if it were a Sunday, "but this did not make it a Sunday. He1 quoted from a decision of the lato Sir .William' Sim that the effect of the Anzac Day Act was simply that if anything had to be done on a Sunday it also had to be done on Anzac Day, and' if the thing had not to bo done on a Sunday, then it had not to be done on Anzae Day. This was very different to making the day a Sunday. . - . .
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 123, 27 May 1930, Page 11
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245NOT A SUNDAY Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 123, 27 May 1930, Page 11
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