SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT
NEED FOR ITS REVISION. ARBITRATION JUDGE SPEAK OUT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The Shops and Offices Act was described "as a Chinese puzzle requiring a Philadelphia lawyer to understand it,” by Mr. Justice Frazer in the Arbitration Court. His Honour said there was great difficulty in defining a pork butcher and an ordinary butcher by the wording of the Act, which left the question to be decided upon by the preponJerence ol business done in certain branches of the 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 sec the Act only went as far as to say that every pork butcher was a butcher, and that every butcher was a pork butcher.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1926, Page 9
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