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Orchardists Need Not Pay For Good Friday ORDER ULTRA VIRES
(By Telegraph-
NELSON, This Day. A decision of lmportance to fruitgrowers was delivered by tho Magisk trate, Mr. E. Maunsell, this morning, the effect of which is that ©asual or* chard hands need not be paid for the Good Friday lioliday. As a test case, a charge was made agiainst Arthur McKee of employing an agrieultural worker in an orckard and failing to allow a holiday on Good Friday without deduction, and the mformation was dismissed. ' The magistrate held that section 3A of the Agrieultural Workers' Extcnsiou Order was ultra vires. and further that the clause did not extend to casual workers. •' There must nccessaniy bo continuity of relationship. It ia obviously repugnant to treat a casual engagement as a contmuous oue. Had Friday not been a holiday, the employee may or may not have received casual employment. At any rate he had not tlie contractual right to sucli einployment. Thercforo there was no failuro to pay wages in breacn oi the order."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 207, 17 September 1937, Page 5
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