WORK ON SUNDAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 701, 28 June 1929, Page 1

WORK ON SUNDAY

SALESMAN AND CARRIER FINED DETERRENT TO OTHERS For pursuing their week-day work on a Sunday, a motor salesman and a carrier were each fined £1 and costs at the Magistrate's Court this morning. Sub-Inspector McCarthy mentioned that the penalty would serve as a deterrent to others. Frederick Coe pleaded guilty on a charge of Sunday trading. The subinspector said that defendant, who was a motor salesman, had taken out a prospective customer for a run on Sundaj’. His car was equipped with demonstration number-plates, and a constable had investigated. Coe’s explanation had then been that he was taking out a man who could not spare the time any other day in the week. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.: That sounds reasonable. The Sub-Inspector: If one starts to do it, they all will. Competition is keen in the motor trade. AGAINST HIS WISHES The excuse put forward by George Edwin Jordan, a carrier, who also pleaded guilty, was that he was shifting furniture for a man who was unable to be home on any other day but Sunday. “I told him that I did not want to work on Sunday, but that I would not see him stuck,” he said. The sub-inspector explained that this case had come to the notice of the police through a motor accident in which some of the furniture had been damaged. “A man does not want to work on Sunday when he is doing 15 or 16 hours every other day in the week,” remarked Jordan. The magistrate pointed out that j Jordan’s action was not fair to other ; carriers.