“CHINESE PUZZLE”
SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT MR JUSTICE FRAZER’S COMMENT WHAT IS A PORK BUTCHER? , Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, December 1. The Shops and Offices Act was described as “a Chinese puzzle, requiring a Philadelphia lawyer to understand it,” by Mr Justice Frazer in tlio Arbitration Court. His Honour said there was .a great difficulty in defining a pork butcher and an ordinary butcher by the wording of the Act, which left the question to bo decided upon the preponderance of business done in certain branches of trade by any man. The Act was one of those things that no one understood, nor ever would understand, but while, it remained on the Statute Book in its present form the court would have to administer it as best it could. As far as he could see the Act only went as far as to say that every pork butcher was a butcher, and every butcher was a pork butcher.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12619, 2 December 1926, Page 9
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158“CHINESE PUZZLE” New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12619, 2 December 1926, Page 9
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