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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2805, 25 November 1931, Page 4

Remarking that the work which the defendant was performing was a work of necessity, Mr P. H. Harper, S.M., in the Police Court at Gisborne recently dismissed n charge against a farmer of forking, four horses in a pulveriser within view of a public place on a Sunday. It was stated that it was essential for the defendant to roll bis ground to conserve the small amount of moisture from a light rain (hat had fallen. The Magistrate remarked that it was an offence fot a farmer to work at his calling on a Sunday unless it could be shown that it was a work of necessity. It was an established fact that farmers were permitted to work at harvesting on Sundays, taking advantage of fine weather, and in this case, in view of the dry weather which farmers were experiencing, he was of the opinion that, as the defendant had taken advantage of the fall of rain, he should be brought under the exceptions in the Act.