THE HALF-HOLIDAY QUESTION.
♦ I Si/ Telegraph.— Press Association. ' Wummton, Friday, | 111 Banco, this morning, before JuslicoEichuiond, the appeal against Ihe conviction, under tho Shops and ' Shop Assistants Act, was heard. Mr i Hutchison, S.M., had in March last, lined W, H, Day, of Greytown North, ' for keeping his shop open on Saturday, the day appointed by the | Borough Council for tbehalf-holidiiy, '. and this decision was appealed , against. Mr Skewed, who appeared in ' support of the appeal, submitted ', that " January next," where used in : Section 9 of tho Act, must he held to i mean January, 18f6. He also urged , that the Borough Council meeting, , at which the special resolution was ] passed, was improperly called. ; Mr Chapman, for the respondent, \ argued that tho statute must be ( taken to speak from the date of tho Royal assent, and contended that the Council meeting was legally called. , His Honor remarked that ho did , not think there was much in the first point raised by Mr Skerrett, . with regard to the. Act being inoperative until January, IS9G, and said as the matter was ono of general importance, he would give a written , judgment,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5046, 8 June 1895, Page 2
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189THE HALF-HOLIDAY QUESTION. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5046, 8 June 1895, Page 2
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