EMPLOYED AFTER HOURS
FEMALE WORKER RESTAURANT KEEPER FINED By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, April 1. When Philip Barling, trading as the Savoy, Ltd., was charged at the Magistrates’ Court with employing a female in his restaurant after 10.30 p.m., counsel, Mr. J. S. Sinclair, said that the court would gain some idea of the defendant’s financial obligations when it was mentioned that his wages and rent bill was not less than £lO,OOO a year.
Counsel submitted that it was impossible to comply with the Act and remain in business. The defendant to do so would require to dispense with the whole of his female staff of 60 girls, the majority of whom were employed in the pantry and kitchen. Even if men were available for this work they were not suitable. They were certain that this incongruous section would be repealed and counsel contended that the departemnt should give up these irritating prosecutions. The department’s officer stated that the defendant had been before the court four - times during the year. It appeared that he was defying the court and the Act. These offences were carried on night after night. The defendant was fined £2/10/-.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1938, Page 7
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