LICENCE CANCELLED.
SECONDHAND DEALER’S OFFENCE
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, November 25. The mis-spelling of the name of an article in an alleged record of the acceptance of a .property, as well as in other papers produced, was a featuie of evidence in the case against a secondhand dealer, IStella C.owper, in the Magistrate’s Court. She was charged with purchasing two indoor howls and a fishing rod from a person under the age of 16. a breach of the Secondhand Dealers Act. She pleaded not guilty. Detective-Sergeant Nalder said the pair of bowls was reported missing from (lie Methodist Sunday School Hall, Croat North road, last December, and it remained untraced until seen xrecent in the window of a city pawnshop. When police inquiries were made no record of the purchase of the howls could be found in the'register in which the secondhand dealer was compelled to keep a record of all transactions.
Evidence was given that a hoy, aged 13, sold the howls and the fishing-rod to buy a radio set, having been given permission to do so by his father Document* allegedly recording the transactions were produced, and . tho handwriting of three entries was stated by the accused to be hers, the boy’s, and another boy's.
On comparing the writing, the Magistrate (Air C. R. Orr Walker, S.Af.) said Abe entries were in the same hand, and the word bowls was mis-spelled “boles” in each case. “The facts point to the defendant having put in these entries afterwards, when the police began to make inquiries,” added the Magistrate, in convicting the defendant. The Magistrate .\akl that when the rules of the business were flagrantly broken by one who showed incapacity to carry them out, it was necessary in the interests of the public that the licence should he taken away. In the defendant’s ease it appeared as though she had been tempted to manipulate her books to meet the situation. He cancelled defendant’s licence and ordered her to pay costs amounting to 18s.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 40, 26 November 1938, Page 8
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334LICENCE CANCELLED. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 40, 26 November 1938, Page 8
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