DEED OF APPRENTICESHIP
SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT MAGISTRATE’S DECISION UPHELD (Per United Press Association; WELLINGTON, Sept. 19. The decision of the magistrate. Mr A. M. Goulding, S.M., that the Shops and Offices’ Amendment Act, 1936, with the wages for shop assistants given therein, did not abrogate a deed of apprenticeship entered into by a chemist was upheld in the Supreme Court in a reserved judgment 'by Mr Justice Reed. His Honor held that the general scheme of the legislation was prospective and there was no indication that it was to have a retrospective effect. There was an entire absence of plain words which indicated that it was the intention of the legislature to take away rights which already existed before the statute was passed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23918, 20 September 1939, Page 6
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124DEED OF APPRENTICESHIP Otago Daily Times, Issue 23918, 20 September 1939, Page 6
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