WORKING ON SUNDAY
Afc the Dannevirke Magistrate’s Court. Thomas Henry Hopcroft (.employer) and ITira. Charles. Mill and Roy Scott (employees) were charged with working at. their ordinary calling—carting wool—on fe.xi.nday January 21st, a plea of not guilty was entered. Senior-Sergeant Harvey gave evidence of the offence, and said that Hopcroft had told him that lie had been held up by a. slip on, the. Tr.-or in from the back, and! had thought if he brought the wool in on Sunday lie could get it loaded on the railway. Defendant Hopcroft explained that they had been held up on the way im. to. Dannevirke on tine Saturday night by the condition of the roads, which had resulted in much delay, hard work and hardship, and their arrival in Dannevirke on Sunday morning. They had had a very rough night, without sleep, and had had to load and unload! 155 bales of wool before they had got them on tlie trucks at the station. Under the circumstances His Worship dismissed the case.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 31384, 13 February 1923, Page 2
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