SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT.
A BANK’S DEFENCE. w-*' (Per Press Association.) Nelson, last night. An important test case, the tirst of the kind in the colony under the Shops and Offices Act, was before Mr. Eyre Kenny, S.M. to-day. The Inspector of Factories, Mr Tyson, proceeded against Charles Tabuteau, manager of the local branch of the Bank of New South TVales, under the Shops Act for refusal of! permission to inspect the extra time book. The defence was that no notice of intention to inspect was given in writing ; that the Inspector of Factories had no right to enter the bank premises unless on a. reasonable supposition that the provisions of the Act were being broken ; that general instructions received by the bank manager from quarters were not to permit the Inspector-; to see the books ; and that ths Shops Act did not apply to the bank, as by a separate. Act of the; New Zealand legislature the bank was incorporated, and bad power to make rules of its own fixing the time of attendance of its officers, no portion of the incorporation Act having been repealed.‘r The Magistrate reserved judgment.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1447, 6 May 1905, Page 2
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