An Important Judgment.
• (FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION!. Wellington, This Day. Mr Martin gave an important ruling under the Shop and Shop Assistants Act to-day. The case was one in which a pork butcher who was not assisted by another person, but by his wife, was charged with a breach of the Act in keeping his shop open on Wednesday afternoon, the 6th inst. Mr Carew had decided in a similar case in Dunedin that the wife was an assistant, but Mr Martin put a different construction on the Act, and held the wife could not be regarded as an assistant. He therefore dismissed the information, holding that the defendant was entitled to open his shop. In another case, an ironmonger who does not employ an assistant or reside on the premises, Mir Martin ruled the defendant was exempt. His Worship held that so long as a man did not employ an assistant he need not close.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 200, 22 February 1895, Page 2
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155An Important Judgment. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 200, 22 February 1895, Page 2
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