REGULATIONS BROKEN

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22111, 5 June 1937, Page 8

REGULATIONS BROKEN

* SALE OF TOBACCO “DRASTIC MEASURE” SUGGESTED A recommendation that the Magistrate should in future exercise his power to enforce compulsory closing cn Saturday afternoon for a year on shops of which the owners were convicted of breaches of the regulations 'overning the sale of tobacco was made oy Mr R. T. Bailey, officer in charge ol the Labour Department in Christchurch. in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday afternoon, when the department brought charges against 25 shopowners. „ _ T .. The Magistrate (Mr E. C. Levvey) said that he felt that this was a rather ..rastic measure, but said that in future r more substantial penalty would be imposed. , . . , Mr Bailey said the department had brought no prosecutions for such offences for some time, but it was now making its best endeavours to enforce the regulations. The charges against each of the Jo defendants were of failing to close their shops at the hours set out m a Gazette notice under the Shops and Offices Act and failing to notify the inspector that smoking requisites were slocked. , The Magistrate said that he would :mpose a nominal penalty for these C3S6S , The following were each fined 10s and ordered to pay costs on each charges: Roy F. Sullivan. F. L. Hernott. Robert Colthart. Alice Craven. George Barton. Tom Hodgson Irma Wilson. A. W. Roper. David Macdonald. John Hardie, Emily Prins, Hugh Kearns, Thomas David Wilson. A. James Coombcs. Frank A. Freyle. Ethel Augusta Gill. Helen Green. Mary Lancaster Lucking, F"ank Bryson, Jessie Sievers. Thomas Robertson Thompson, Thomas Jesse Gimson Ivy Marsden. and Annie Lisle Wood. Harold Walker, who was stated by Mr R. Twyneham to have been only a short time in the business, was fined 10s and ordered to pay costs on one charge and ordered to pay costs on the other.

Aiding and Abetting For aiding and abetting the sale of tobacco after hours by purchasing cigarettes, William Carpenter was fined 10s, and ordered to pay costs.