UNSTAMPED RECEIPTS.
SENT TO THE GOVERNMENT. FIXES OF 10/ IMPOSED. "Ordinary business courtesy would seem to demand that they send the receipt back and a*k hini to attach a stamp. Only a Government Department would do that sort of thing, sir," said Mr. Hogben in the Police Court today, when Dr. Herbert Goldstein was charged with failing to attach ' a -d stamp to a receipt. Dr. Goldstein had returned a receipt to the Government, and had overlooked the' matter of putting the stamp on the place provided. "Oil, yes, there is no evidence of intention," paid Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.-U. "Fined 10/, costs 0/." "My eyesight was bad. and I couldn't see the difference lietween a lid stamp and a 2d one," said Eleanor Leighton, when similarly .charged. She was fined 10/, costs 0/." Ralph H. A. Potter, wild also had returned an unstamped receipt to the Government, was mulcted in a like sum. "My client endorsed a cheque for £.'£ 13/G for the Public Works Department and the young lady in his office did not put a-st.amp-on.it," said "Mr. Uren, when Ralph Thomas Sheppard, manager of tne local branch of a rubber company, was charged with a similar offence. A fine of 10/, with costs,- was imposed. "I think it's a bit sudden, you know/ , complained Mr. Uren. >•
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 12, 15 January 1926, Page 8
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219UNSTAMPED RECEIPTS. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 12, 15 January 1926, Page 8
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