CHARGE AGAINST CHEMISTS.
■■ ' -—• ' '' " FLEET WEEK" BUSINESS; (it.- TELEGRU'tI—I-KESS IS3OCIATIO.W) ( . Auckland, September 23. ' Seven Queen Street'.. cbwaiit*—Wm.::B. Hall, Frank White, Alfred I'iucoe, R.. W. Parker, Harold, O. Wiles, Afsr*nder . Eccles, and Wm. H. Woollams—who kept their shops open ono evening in "fleet week" at. *n hour later than that prescribed i for closing, all pleaded guilty at the Police Court'to-day to the infringement. Mr. M 'Veash explained for his clients that. it, was really a mutter ■of not harms been up to dale. Had they applied, »« did the tobacconinti, for a vaiiation of th« t«rm« of the requiiition respecting the clojinu hour during "ileet- \\c>>k'' it could doubtlessly have been obtained ; but tiny did uot foresee the ruth ui ■ tiiat w*« going to roll into their ciitiuist. shops, whick irer» reslly during that weak auxiliary ambulance itntioiu, a great i:iii;iiwr of cases wero t*k«n into the various o;i,;«j;shments at night in "fleet week." "'flier® is no doubt at all that 'ilect week' was an exceptional, a phenomenal one," raid Jlr. Kettle, S.M. "The defendants hive ilready been" put to the inconvenience of being brought to Court and of having to incur tho expense of counsel, so although..® technical breach has been committed I will dismiss .the information."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 310, 24 September 1908, Page 4
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206CHARGE AGAINST CHEMISTS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 310, 24 September 1908, Page 4
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