ANZAC DAY DEFINED

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 982, 27 May 1930, Page 16

ANZAC DAY DEFINED

NOT SAME AS SUNDAY Press Association ROTORUA, Monday. A case of unusual importance was heard in the Magistrate's Court today. before Mr. S. L. Paterson. S.M. shopkeepers were charged under the Shops and Offices Act with keeping open on the statutory halfholiday in the week in which Easter Monday and Anzac Day fell. The Shops and Offices Act provides that where shops are closed on two working days during the week they may remain open on tlie day of the statutory half-holiday. A working day is defined by tlie Act as “any day other than Sunday.” The Labour Department contended that the effect of the Anzac Day Act was to make Anzac Day a Sunday, and therefore it was not a working day as defined by the Shops and Offices Act. After referring to the various Acts involved the magistrate decided to dismiss the information upon the ground that the Anzac Day Act provided that the day should be observed as if it were a Sunday, but this did not make it a Sunday. He quoted from a decision of the late Mr. Justice Sim, that the effect of the Anzac Day Act was simply that if anything had to be done on a Sunday it also had to be done on. Anzac Day, and i.f a thing had. not to be done on a Sunday, then it had not to be done «-»n Anzac Day. This was very diffei 4 - "nt from making the day a Sunday.