Brown v Brown Brothers and Geddes Limited - [1941] NZLR 447

Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Acts — Award — Wages — Factories' Employer entitled to make Deductions from Weekly Wages "for time lost through the sickness or default of the worker" — Breakdown of Machinery — Temporary closing of Factory for cleaning or repairing the Machinery — Whether Deduction of Wages for lost Working-hours permissible — Factories Act, 1921–22, s 32 (a) — Factories Amendment Act, 1936, ss 12, 19.