AUCTIONEERS’ ASSISTANTS
QUESTION OF HALF-HOLIDAY. A CHRISTCHURCH CASE.
{ Per Preßß Association. J CHRISTCHURCH, April 8. A case of considerable interest to auctioneers was heard at the Magistrate’s Court before Mr. Levvey today, when the Labour Department prosecuted H. C. Smith, auctioneer, for failing to give an assistant a halfholiday as provided under the Shops and Offices’ Act. Mr. Bailey, for the Labour Department, contended that the assistant was not exclusively an auctioneer, but was a shop assistant. Air. Thomas, for Smith, claimed that the assistant was employed exclusively as an auctioneer clerk, and was exempt from the provisions of the Act. Air. Thomas pointed out that the practice of Saturday afternoon auction sales had been going on for 40 or 50 years. After hearing evidence, Mr. Levcoy reserved judgment.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 85, 9 April 1936, Page 9
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