SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT.
INTERESTING JUDGMENT
Per Press Association
. WELLINGTON, Nov. (1, By keeping, open an automatic cigarette machine outside the doors *’i' the statutory half-liolidav, Armitf Ltd., were held by Mr E. Page, S.M to have failed to closo the shop at p.m. The charge was laid under tin Shops and Offices Act, which Air Page in a reserved judgment to-day. be - seemed wider than the English act. dfining a “shop” as being “any buildmg or place in which goods are keptexposed or offered for sale, or in wluc' any part of the business of a shop iconducted.” Ho thought that tlnplace where the machine was in t case came within the definition of ar formed part of the shop, and he -! not think that the defendant's P' -■ tion would bo improved even if t!machine were placed in the street e other public place. The definiti in “shop” seemed wide enough to cov : -Mr.Rage also remarked that t; Act limited not only the hour? which a66istants'might- be employed. I also the hours in which trading niig’M bo carried on. Tire question of penalty was_ defera for a week to allow the decision to considered with the view to an appv-
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 291, 6 November 1928, Page 2
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201SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 291, 6 November 1928, Page 2
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