WORKING ON A SUNDAY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18365, 24 April 1925, Page 18

WORKING ON A SUNDAY.

WELLINGTON LAND Aq|9H CONVICTED. : WH "It is clear that the working at his calling, whicn t tff§BH it, is his regular work or ottgaHH As he did this on view of a public place I tMnh&fjfflM brought himself within tiro the - Police Offences said Mr C. B. Orr-Walker, tho Magistrate's Court at WtfflnH on Tuesday, in a reserved iifIHHH in a case in which the police afeainst James Francis salesman, for working at in a public place on a Suwbqr|j|^H His Worship said thai ddnHflH r.as a land l palesman, and bwH anco of liis desire to gefl tions at Johnson\*ille, he "clients" to the locality on a and whilo doing so was in rierH| public house. He had nreviottajtgJß vcrtised that likely bo shown over tho sections flS^fl Counsel argued that the tUgflH the Act was to prevent mamttfJMH ers or tradesmen from their usual work or trade 6fcfjraH| day, but from a exemptions in the same wetitwaßHß Act. for instance, telegraph qHHH office officials and persons etMH| publishing & newspaper, it.imH 'that our statute is not so Uiall^^B^B The decisions trader V<f'jsHS Sunday Observance Act, P*fj|j9|H 250 years ago, do not kelp•vaHH language in that' Act is the wording of our Police u?i|HHfl which the English Actdoes^fl^^^B As the proceedings -mtit'^i^^gm nature of a test case, defenJfa^HHH| convicted and ordered to tf^jlHHH His Worship said that penalty was one' not exeeeuJ|g|Jß6gß 48 hours in the stocksl' 77!^|I§HBM