MILK VENDORS' HOURS
SUBJECT TO THE ACT CANTERBURY RULING DEFENDANT FINED £2 (Pit Proas Association.) CHRISTCIIURCH, this day. Tlic provisions ol' the. Shops and Ollices Aci. in regard to hours of work apply io milk vendors, according to a reserved judgment, delivered by Mi'. P. P. Reid, S.M, in the Magistrate's Court i.o-day. The magistrate said that he must look i\l tile general purport oi the Statute in< a whole. It was a remedial Act and Us object was to regulate and ameliorate the working conditions of the employees in shops and offices and analojons businesses. >
ft was clear that, generally speaking, the Act WHS intended to apply to milkmen, and. it would be unreasonable to hold that the defendant could escape the Statute. If he could do so, he could compete on unequal term* with other milk vendors who conducted their businesses in such a manner as to oring tlieiii in anv case, within the scope of the Act.
The magistrate contended that a broad construction should bo placed on section 36, and. therefore, he held that the defendant must be convicted. A line of .U2 was imposed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19248, 13 February 1937, Page 15
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189MILK VENDORS' HOURS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19248, 13 February 1937, Page 15
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