“CHINESE PUZZLE”
SHOPS AND OFFICES WORDING OF THE ACT CRITICISED BY MR JUSTICE ERAZER (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, December 1. The Shops and Offices Act was described as a “Chinese puzzle requiring a Philadelphia lawyer co understand it” by Mr Justice Frazer in the Arbitration Court. His Honour said there was great difficulty in defining a pork butcher and an ordinary butcher by the wording of the Act which left the question to be decided upon the preponderance of business done in certain branches of the trade by any man. The Act was one of those things that no one understood nor ever would understand, but while it remained on the Statute Book in its present form, the Court would have to administer it as best it could. As far as he could see the Act only went as far as to say that every pork butcher was a butcher and every butcher a pork butcher.
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Southland Times, Issue 20042, 2 December 1926, Page 8
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