The Half-Holiday.
(Per Press Association.) Wellington, January 8. A deputation waited on the Minister of Labour to-day and asked him whether clerks in shops were to be treated as clerks or as shop assistants, and what they were to do about closing until the Conference decided upon one day for all in Wellington. The Conference did not meet till January 1 2th and the Act is now in force. Mr Reeves said the second case was rather awkward, but it was clear, to him that as the Act is in force shopkeepers must close on one half day in the week. Until the Conference fixed a day they could choose their own. As to the first question he would interpret the Act to mean all persons employed in clerical work in connection with shops were shop assistants. He held that because a man did somo clerical work in a shop therefore he was an office clerk and entitled to the half holiday on Saturday 100 would be ridiculons. He would take the opinion of the Crown Law officers on point, but in the meantime the Act would be interpreted in the way he indicated. If there was any difference of opinion he would have the construction placed on the Act made public.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 163, 9 January 1895, Page 2
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