GARDEN WORK ON SUNDAY. Auckland

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GARDEN WORK ON SUNDAY. SIX CHINESE. FINED,- At the Onehunsra Police Court to-day before Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., five Chinese gardeners named Chang-Zuro- Git, Ming Thue, Cheung-y-Kai, Ah Sun and Wah Hum, were fined 20/ each and costs, for working in a market garden on Sunday, September 15; For procuring these men to work Wong Chong was also convicted and fined 20/' and costs.

Lewis Stokes wae ordered to pay 10/ costs for working at the same time and place. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 237, 7 October 1929, Page 12

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CHINESE CONVICTED.

SUNDAY GARDENING* SUPPLY FOR STEAMERS. Four Chinese market gardeners, named Ah Lay, Ah Kai, Ah Sun and Chock Ying, employed by Wong Chong, were convicted and fined 10/ each by Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., at the. Onehunga Police Court to-day, for working on Sunday, May 10. Mr. Levien said, in his reserved judgment, that it had been admitted that the gardeners were working under instructions from their employer. Their defence was based on the statutory exception as to work of necessity. Wong Ohong was a contractor for the supply of fresh vegetables to most of the local and foreign-going steamers trading to Auckland. Supplies were to be delivered to the motor ship Hauraki and the steamer Hertford at 8 o'clock on the morning of May 11. Both orders were given to Wong Chong by the steamer authorities verbally at noon on the previous Saturday. There was ample time on Saturday afternoon to gather the root vegetables and cabbages ordered, and the more perishable variety could have been gathered or the Monday. Employers were under an obligation to guard their employees against the necessity of working on Sundays, either by restricting the times of delivery or providing proper storage. By amendment of the.statute, said the magistrate, the Legislature had kept pace reasonably with the changes in social and economic problems. Apparently the time was not yet ripe for including in the exceptional callings the business of market gardening in respect of somewhat perishable vegetables. Wong Chong was also convicted on four charges, for employing the four gardeners on Sunday, May 10. Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 169, 20 July 1931, Page 7