“CHINESE PUZZLE”
SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT
WHAT IS A PORK BUTCHER ?
AUCKLAND, Dec, 1
The Shops and Offices Act was described as a “Chinese puzzle, requiring a Philadelphia lawyer to understand it” by Mr Justice Frazer, in the Arbitration Court.
His ‘Honor said there was great difficulty in defining .a pork butcher, and an ordinary butcher by the wording of the Act, which left the question to be decided upon the preponderance of business done in certain branches of the trade by any man. The Act was one of those things that no one understood, nor ever would understand, but while it remained on the Statute Book in its present form, the Court would have to administer it as best it could. As far as he could see, the Act only,-went as far as to say that every pork butcher was a butcher and every butcher was a pork butcher.—P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10260, 2 December 1926, Page 5
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