SATURDAY AUCTIONS
May Clerks Be Employed By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, April 21. An issue of importance to auctioneers throughout New Zealand—whether they may employ clerks at auction sales on Saturday afternoons—was involved in charges on which Mr E. C. Lcvvey, S.M., convicted Henry Cooper Smith, u city auctioneer, in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, holding in his reserved decision that by employing a clerk at auction sales on Saturday afternoons Smith had committed a broach of the Shops and Offices Act.
Giving his judgment, ths Magistrate said: “I am of the opinion that both the defendant and his employee come within the purview of and are bound by the Shops and Offices Act, and therefore the employer is bound to give, and the employee to take, a half holiday.” Remarking that this was simply a test case, the Magistrate fined the defendant 20/- on each of two charges, and ordered him to pay costs,
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 110, 22 April 1936, Page 9
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153SATURDAY AUCTIONS Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 110, 22 April 1936, Page 9
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