Whether a storeman engaged casually on other work w<as still a storeman was a point which led to an amusing exchange at a dispute before the Conciliation Commissioner yesterday. '' You might take a storeman into an hotel bar and put him to work as a barman," said one of tho assessors. "Would ho still be a storeman?" "He vory probably would be storing something away," remarked an employers' representative, amid laughter. "Storeman, after all, are only human," added another, to the accompaniment of renewed laughter. The Labour Bills Committee reported to the Houae of Eep2'esentatives yesterday that in its opinion the petition of small shopkeepers asking that closing hours should "be fixed by Parliament instead of by the Arbitration Court should bo roferred to the Government for consideration.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 55, 2 September 1926, Page 16
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