AUCTIONS ON SATURDAYS
EMPLOYMENT OF CLERK IMPORTANT DECISION GIVEN [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday An issue of importance to auctioneers throughout New Zealand, as to whether they may employ clerks at auction sales on Saturday afternoons, was involved in charges on which Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., convicted Henry Cooper Smith, a city auctioneer, in the Magistrate's Court to-day, holding in his reserved decision that by employing a clerk at auction sales on Saturday afternoons Smith had committed a breach of the Shops and Offices Act. The magistrate suggested that a point of such importance had been raised by defendant's counsel that it might well be taken to another Court for a final ruling. Giving his judgment, the magistrate said: "I am of opinion that both the defendant and his employee come within the purview of and are bound by the Shops and Offices Act, and therefore the employer is bound to give and the employee to .take a half-holiday." Bemarking that this was simply a test case, the magistrate fined defendant 20s on each of two charges and ordered him to pay costs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22400, 22 April 1936, Page 14
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185AUCTIONS ON SATURDAYS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22400, 22 April 1936, Page 14
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