A HALF-HOLIDAY CASE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2201, 27 May 1908, Page 2

A HALF-HOLIDAY CASE.

HOTEL LICENSEE FINED.

Press Association,

CHRISTCHURCH, May 26. The Magistrate gave judgment in the caso of the Inspector of Factories v. Maurice Lyons, licensee of the United Sendee Hotel. The defendant was charged with failing to give an employee (a night porter) a weekly half-holiday. The Magistrate (Mr. Bishop) had followed the decision of Mr. Riddell, S.M., in which the latter said that the holiday must start from 2 p.m., and as a night porter w.is employed at night, that provision ■did not- affect him, and dismissed the case. The Inspector of Factories appealed against the decision, and the appeal was allowed . Mr. Bishop, S.M., said that it appeared to him that when the first case was decided by Mr. Riddell, S.M., the Department had laid down under an adverse dccison. and took no steps to tost its validity. The Magistrate in the second case followed the decision in the first Case, believing that all the points had properly been considered. The case was published throughout the Dominion bv the Ldmf Department itself, and lie thought that if the Magistrate was ■justified in acting on the decision surely defendant was entitled to act similarly. Looking at the matter in that light, lie thought it was not a case, for a heavy, penalty. Defendant would bo convicted and fined Is and costs.