DEFINITION OF "EVENING"

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 120, 22 May 1919, Page 4

DEFINITION OF "EVENING"

LABOUR DEPARTMENT’S APPEAL r ALLQWifiD; _.V 5 {United Press Association.) (SSnOwai Maym v * Judgment was delivered- in the ■ Su* : preme Court this moving by Mr Jus- . tice Herdmau in the by La* - oour Department’ agjfflttst the decision, given'at Timaru by Mr Dfcy; S.M.,wA(> had decided against, the ift * a prosecution 'brought, by it Manning and raaan. for having their metofoee, wen after 7 p.m. on. December ; / contrary to the hour opclqsin£ fixedby the requisitidtt eft “those ; trade. 1318 ease turned on. 'the dialing l *- - of the word “evening/* ' tion. 25 of the * Shape f 1908. and its t% I containing ia6' d&'nmtfii' -of **Be' ■ yroru. f Under legislation passed in, . ever, was defined as lime of day not earlier than S the afternoon.' r , | In allowing the appeal, Hi£,.JJomjur pointed out that since the had delivered judgment' in v. Lightfoot, the law had { radical' change, and what ‘ vague had been given, definite meaning , by tpb-section 41 of the IjVar and Statute lay '■ It would be absurd, Hfe to find on one’ hand' that gipcers, the .medium of a requisition mparf “■ Ini 7 p.m. on working days. dnchl®p|r 'New Year’s Eve, amPto, other hand th:it because section 5/o!,the * Act permitted the employment of aesfc- ' fonts Till 11 u.m., the same grow® enjovecl the right to keep open beyond • i the hour which they ’deterged . 1 be the closing hour.