NOT STAMPED
A RECEIPT GIVEN FOR RENT.
AMOUNTS ENTERED AS WEEKLY.
FINE IMPOSED ON COLLECTOR. /Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. No precedent in New Zealand law could he found on a point raised m the Magistrate’s Court this morning. William George McNeill was charged with having written a receipt liable for stamp duty without affixing a stamp, and with 12 charges of having divided moneys over £2, so as to avoid paying stamp duty. Evidence was given that McNeill collected rent totalling £2 5s fortnightly, and entered it as weekly payments of 22s 6d.
Mr Cowie (for McNeill) said he was unable to .find a precedent for the case. '
Mr Levvey, S.M., offered to make the penalty £6, so that a test case could be made, but after further legal argument, a penalty of 10s on the first charge was entered, McNeill being convicted and discharged on the others.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 295, 26 September 1935, Page 7
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