"A BIT SUDDEN."
FINED FOR UNSTAMPED RECEIPTS. (special to "the press.") AUCKLAND 1 , January 15. "Ordinary business courtesy would seem to demand that they send the receipt baok and ask him to attach a stamp. Only a Government Department would do that sort of thing, sir, said Mr Hogben, in the Police Court, when Dr. Herbert Goldstein was charged with failing to attach a 2d stapip to a receipt. Dr. Goldstein had returned a receipt to the Government, and had overlooked the matter of putting a stamp on the place provided. "Oh, yes, thero is no evidence of intention." said Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M. "Fined 1 10s, costs 95." "My eyesight was bad and I couldn't see the difference between a ljd Btamp and a 2d one," said Eleanor Leighton when similarly charged. She was fined 10s, costs 9s:
Ralph H. A. Potter, who also had returned am unstamped receipt to the> Government, was fined a like sum. "My client endorsed a cheque for £2 13s 6d for the Public Works Department, and the young lady in his office did not-put a. stamp on it," said Mr Uren, when Ralph Thomas Sheppard, manager of the local branch of a rubber company was charged with a similar offence.
A fine of 10s with costs was imposed. "I think it'®'a bit sudden, you know," complained Mr Uren.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18591, 16 January 1926, Page 14
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