IS IT A FACTORY?

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 188, 26 August 1937, Page 9

IS IT A FACTORY?

Press Assocjation, >

Are Prepared for Sale

: (By, TelesraDh— ;

e .CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Tke scope of tke term "preparing or manufacturing gopds .for sale" iu the Factories - Act • was debated iu tke Supreme Gourt before Mr. J ustice jNortkcroft. : William, Herber West, iappekled- against a conviction in 'the .'Magistrate 's" Court by Mr. E. ^ C. , LevveyJ S.M., for o'ccupyiiig ' premiscs for "preparing or" manufactui'iug goods jfor 'sale';J and" not ' registering tliom iunder the Factories Act. Tke' statement of appeal set out tkat .appellant conducted a poiiltry and egg market, in wkick tkree girls were engaged testing and grading 20 per cent. of the eggs, wkick did not arrive at tke market already graded. No ckarge was made for tke grading, Temnneration being commission on saies. Appellant iclaimed tkat tke girls were not prepaT:ing or manufacturing goods for sale witkin tke meaning of the' Act, For appellant Mr. D, W. Russell . based kis argument on tke contentioni tkat eack egg was quite tke same in 1 ckaracter and form wken it was sold as wken it was accepted. It was merely taken from a box, tested and graded into a box. If it were keld tkat tkese premises did constitute a factory, every retail skop wkick graded hananas and! otker goods for sale must constitute a factory. Similarlv, a farm on wkick eggs were laid, collccted, cleaned , and graded would he a factory. The argument for tke Labour Depart- j ment was that by testing .and grading' eggs were made more attractive to ' tke buyer and more suited to kis needs. "I have a view upon the' question, " said kis Honour, ."but as tho Departmeut regards tke case as of general interest, I will commit my view to.writing." • , u ,