DAIRY FACTORY LABOUR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 123, 27 May 1938, Page 8

DAIRY FACTORY LABOUR

1 SIX-DAY WEEK IN QUESTION . APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT | MANAGER CONVICTED by MAGISTRATE. I Per Pres,* AMOciutfon.} NEW PLYMOUTH, May 26. I A matter of great importance to . ihe dairy industry of the Dominion i and one having far-reaching effects, I if the magisterial judgment at New i Plymouth is upheld, tame before the i Chief Justice, S : Michael Myers, in • the Supreme Court this morning, and lon a joint application of ihe parlies • was referred to the Full Court of I Appeal for argument in Wellington ' next month. [ 'The case was an appeal by Percy Smith, manager of the Waitoitoi , Dairy Factory, against the judgment ‘of Mi. W. H. Woodward, S.M., at • New Plymouth in convicting him of a ; breach of the Factories’ Ad Amend- ! men!, 19-36. by employing a worker on •even days a week instead of six between August II and September 29, 19?,7. When an appeal was mentioned this morning Sir Michael • Myers asked the parlies to consider ’whether the case was of sufficient I importance to refer to a Full Court. Mr. J. F. B. Stevenson, of Wellington. said the decision affected j all companies, but particularly some 160 factories which, if ihe judgment was sustained, would be involved in lan additional payment of £25,000 a ! year, and the method of working • would have to be reorganised. I Mr. R. H. Quilliam, representing • the respondent, agreed on the. imI porlance of the case, and it was ac--1 cordingly referred to ihe Full Court.