The Shop and Shop Assistant's Act.
(By Telegraph. —Press Association.) Wellington, Friday. Mr Martin, S.M., gavo an import, ant ruling under tho Shop and Shop Assistants Act, to-day,
The case was one in which a pork butcher, who was not assisted by any other person than his wife, was charged with a breach of the Act, in keeping shop open on Wednesday afternoon, 6th inst. Mr Careiv had decided in a similar caso in Dunedhi, that the wife was an assistant, but Mr Martin put a different construction on tho Act, and held that a wife could not bo be regarded as an assistant, and therefore dismissed tho information holding dofendent was entitled to keep open his shop. In another case against an ironmonger, \ih docs not employ any assistant or reside ou tho prenus<w| i mi-'Martin ruled deiondant was exempt Bis Worsfii'p held, that so | long as a man did not employ any awtiut, he ue.ei pg( dose,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4958, 22 February 1895, Page 2
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159The Shop and Shop Assistant's Act. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4958, 22 February 1895, Page 2
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