AUCTION PRACTICE
HALF-HOLIDAY QUESTION
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
A case of considerable interest to auctioneers was . heard in the Magistrate's Court before Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., today when the Labour Department prosecuted Henry Cooper Smith, auctioneer, for failing to give an assistant a half-holiday as provided under the Shops and Offices Act.
Mr. R. T, Bailey, for the Labour Department, contended that the assistant was not ' exclusively an auctioneer but was a shop assistant.
Mr. C. S. Thomas, for Smith claimed that' the assistant was employed exclusively as an auctioneer-clerk and was exempt from the provisions of the Act. 'He pointed out that the practice of Saturday afternoon auction sales had been going on for, forty or fifty years.
: After, hearing evidence Mr. Lewey reserved his judgment.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 84, 8 April 1936, Page 8
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