BAKERS IN COURT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16388, 9 July 1927, Page 15

BAKERS IN COURT

WORK ON KING’S BIRTHDAY (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this (Jay. In the Arbitration Court, before Mr. fustic,t Frazer, Walter Buchanan and Solis Ltd., were, charged with a breach of the baker's’ award by baking bread, and George Kent ami bon, Ltd., »i > delivering bread on the Kings But da The charge against the Kents was dismissed on the defence that Die person who delivered the bread, a shai<j, older who used his private car, was not. governed by tro. award. ... Counsel for Buchanans said baking commenced at 7.30 p.m., the company s interpretation Of the award being that it could bake on the King s Jurtoclay, but could not deliver. Employees had been given a holiday the previous even-

The judge said most bakers bad no-reed to the prohibition clause witn the intention of preventing small bakers baking fresh bread on holidays, nn getting an unfair advantage over the large baker. The clause, however, did not affect bakers who did not employ labor. Baking on Die Kings Lirtlulax was not against the spirit of the prohibition, for tho fresh bread was intended for sale on the, following davit had no doubt been an oversight, but the court could not correct it. ' cssiblv the parties might be able o modify the, clause. , It, was only a technical offence and a' conviction would merely be recorded.