IMPORTANT JUDGMENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 241, 10 September 1937, Page 2

IMPORTANT JUDGMENT.

DEFINITION OF FACTORY. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH. Sept. 10. A poultry and egg market boldine poultry auction sales, and testing and gradiner eggs, is not a factory. This is the import of a judgment given by Afr Justice Nortlicroft in the Supreme Court this morning on an appeal by William Terxert West, who conducts such a market, against a conviction entered against him in the Magistrate’s Court for failing to register his premises as a factory. His Honour unhehl the appeal and quashed the conviction.

Three girls were employed in appellant’s premises, said His Honour, in giving judgment, in the process of testing eggs, after which they praded „ rr tn weight. Eighty per cent, of the eggs were received at the market already graded; the object n-as + 0 be ah’" to sell a guaranteed pgrr No obnrpe was made for testing, appellant’s remuneration be- ; ivr os oommission for selling the eges. No st°arri or rocchanical power was employed in testing. A factory was defined as anv place in two or more persons were employed in'preparing or mamifacturin<r eroods for or sale. “Tn my: opinion.” said His Honour, “the process used bv appellant does not involve the preparing of goods for trade or sale. Thosp words suggest treatment of goods which Is calculated to make them more attractive for trade or sale. Appellant does no more than unpack, sort, and repack.”