AFTER HOURS.
WOKG FOWCr'S CIGARETTES. DAUGHTER?HANDS PACKET TO I' ', r ;INSPECTOR. i (By. to "Star.") • I." WJELLJNGTON, this day.
~ '?£ Lkhowr ifepiartinent' Inspector went into Woug Jong's shop and asked defendant's daughter for a packet of cigarettes. -* ffltik banded them over the :jwuiiter,,bn|b; returned them htf- ! th'e girl," e&plainnig- who he -was- andreauesting to_ jee?. ber ; father t The sequel was a. prosecution ..yesterday for cigarettes after -hours. Counsel; for defendant contended that as ; : the inspector had not paid for the cigarettes and taken delivery of them tor tVe. ;TRiy, 'no : sa.U had been effected, and therefore Ahe prosecution • must fail. : •'- * "■[""'- ■"-"' - - magistrate, E.Page, held that the cigarettes Be could have been sued for the amount if he had not handed them back. A fin© :of £2 and costs was imposed. j
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 154, 2 July 1927, Page 10
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