INTERESTING RULE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 50, 29 January 1937, Page 4

INTERESTING RULE.

CASE AT WANGANUI. Per Press Association. » WANGANUI, Jan. 28. An interesting point was raised in Court to-da.y in a case in which Inspector McGregor, of the Labour Department, proceeded against the New Zealand Casein Coy. for employing two workers for more than 40 hours a week and failing to pay overtime rutes. Mr McGregor contended that the casein factory at Aramoho, where efisein is manufactured, is not a dairy factory under the regulations. Mr J. F. B. Stevenson (Wellington) contended that a casein factory is a dairy factory and that dairy produce means any other product of milk or cream, and that casein is just as much the product of a dairy as butter or cream. The company was registered under the Dairy Division as a factory where dairy produce was manufactured.

Mr Salmon, S.M.. upheld the point and said it was clear that the factory was registered under the Dairy Act and that dairy produce included any other product of milk. The information was dismissed, used every reasonable endeavour, then L am convinced that the applicant may rely that the Commissions and the Court will recognise the remedial nature of'tile legislation, both in their interpretation of the Act and their use of any powers they may have, hut whether or not this will enable the applications sp filed to he held good ill the case of a dispute is a question which the solicitors themselves arc in as good a position to answer as 1 am. I have no more power to give authoritative interpretations of the Act than I have to alter what is part of the Statute itself. If an application be lodged this month, however incomplete, solicitors will recognise as readily as I that it will constitute a very considerable element in any argument asking for the month’s grace which the Court is empowered to give, and that it is, therefore, vastly .bette- to lodge before January 31 an incomplete application rather than none nt all.”