NO DAY OFF GIVEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23418, 7 August 1939, Page 11

NO DAY OFF GIVEN

TRANSPORT COMPANY FINED DRIVER WORKED ON SUNDAYS [from our own correspondent] FUKEKOHE, Saturday In a reserved judgment, Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., fined the Roose Shipping Company, Limited, £1 10s and costs, 10s, for allowing one of its motor drivers, F. J. Parsons,- to work on seven days without one continuous break of 24 hours The prosecution, which was brought by the Transport Department, was heard in the Pukekolie Police Court. It was admitted that the company had a goods service licence to enable it to do carrying by motor-lorry for farmers and others, and that, in taking milk lambs to the freezing works, Mr. Parsons had been allowed to work every day of the seven in the week, without a 24 hours' break, on three occasons. It was not disputed that failure to allow such a break was a breach in the case of all continuous goods service licences, but the defence was that, in the case of the company, the Sunday trips were run under the authority of a temporary licence, specially obtained on each of the three occasions for that day, and that the regulation requiring the 24 hours' break did not apply with relation to temporary licences. Mr. ficvien held that the regulation applied whether the driver was operating under the authority of a continuous or temporary goods service licence, and consequently the company bad committed a breach.