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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12647, 7 November 1905, Page 8

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(Per Press Association)

AUCKLAND, November 6. John McSweeney, aged 22, was arrested and remanded for a week, bail being -refused, on a chal-ge of shooting three Chinese at Archhill with intent to do Jbodily harm. Ten Chinese pursued the jman, "who escaped, but was arrested this morning from the description. WELLINGTON, November 6 ; A wharf labourer named Robert EdTvard Taylor was fined £20 this morning zfor gaming on the wharf. The police ■said that the gambling about the wharves, and on the hill-sides about the city, was a perfect pest. ' Taylor was caught playing poker with dice, a number of wharf labourers participating.

GISBORNE, November (3. Several deferred Supreme Court judgments were given to-day. ~ An appeal in a case under the Factories Act of consideraJble interest was ihat in which two brothers (Robb) had been fined, their contention being that -they did not employ labour, and therefore it was not necessary to register, judge Edwards dismissed the appeal. He held that the contention was correct that the words in the statute, " employed in any factory," did not mean ■employed for hire, but the persons actually engaged in the work and the occupiers were included in the persons so employed. 'It Tvas not, however, necessary to show that any person other than a -single occupier was employed in the factory. The statute was not designed ior the protection of the workers alone, -though that protection entered largely into the design. Certain sections, for -example, were designed for the protection of persons employed in factories. was a very strong reason for the application of the provision with respect sanitation to such business premises •as bakehouses and laundries, and he had no doubt the Legislature meant what at said in the definition of the word ■"factory" in section 2.