Num. 60.

2269

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1935.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1935.

Suspending the Operation of certain Statutes in connection with the Canterbury Winter Show and Exhibition of Industries.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 20th day of August, 1935.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Exhibitions Act, 1910 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby authorize the holding of a public exhibition of works of industry and art to be conducted by the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association (Incorporated), and the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association (Incorporated), in Messrs. Dalgety and Company’s Wool-store, Moorehouse Avenue, Christchurch, from the tenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, to the twenty-fourth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five (both days inclusive), and to be known as the Canterbury Winter Show and Exhibition of Industries, and doth hereby declare the said exhibition to be an exhibition within the meaning of the said Act, and doth hereby suspend, subject, however, to the conditions set out in the Schedule hereto, all the provisions of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, the Factories Act, 1921–22, and the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, and any amendments to the aforesaid Acts and of all awards and industrial agreements in force under the last-named Act in so far as such provisions relate to the hours of commencing or ceasing work, or to the issue of permits for overtime or extended hours, or to holidays or half-holidays, or to the closing of shops to any person, so far as such provisions relate to hours of work done or business conducted or service carried out in or upon the premises aforesaid during the period aforesaid by or on behalf of the bodies conducting the said exhibition, or by or on behalf of any exhibitor of works of industry or art at the said exhibition, or by any person employed in or about the said exhibition.

SCHEDULE.

(1) Eight hours shall constitute a day’s work in or about the exhibition, and, with the exception set out in clause 2 hereof, such hours shall be worked consecutively.

(2) No person shall be employed in or about the exhibition for more than four hours without an interval of at least three-quarters of an hour for a meal.

(3) Any person employed during any day in or about the exhibition who is employed on such day in excess of eight hours, or before the hour of 8 a.m., or after the hour of 10.30 p.m. (whether such excess employment is in or about the exhibition or otherwise), shall be paid for such excess employment at not less than one-half as much again as the ordinary rate for the first two hours, and at not less than twice the ordinary rate thereafter, and any person employed in or about the exhibition on any day that would, but for the provisions of this Order in Council, have been a whole holiday for such person by virtue of any Act or of any award or industrial agreement, shall be paid for all work done on such day at not less than twice the ordinary rate, whether such work is performed wholly in or about the exhibition or otherwise.

(4) No female shall be employed in or about the exhibition after the hour of 10.30 p.m.

(5) For the purposes of the enforcement of an award or industrial agreement, any provision of which has been suspended by this Order in Council, any officer of the industrial union or association concerned, who is authorized in writing in that behalf by such union or association, shall be entitled to interview at his place of employment any person employed in or about the exhibition under that award or industrial agreement at such time or times as may be agreed upon by and between such officer and the employer of such person, and for this purpose any such officer shall be entitled at any reasonable time to have access to the register of passes issued by the Canterbury Winter Show and Exhibition Executive.

(6) Nothing in this Order in Council shall be deemed to affect any provisions in an award or industrial agreement relating to preference of employment.

A. W. MULLIGAN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

By Authority: G. H. LONEY, Government Printer, Wellington.

Price 6d.]