COUPONS FOR BOOKS
Police Prosecution Fails
(By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright ' Gisborne, June 10.
A decision that no offence had been committed was given by the magistrate, Mr. Hewitt, this morning in a prosecution under the Trading Coupons Act. Mrs. Eastwood, bookseller, was the defendant. She issued to purchasers of school books to the value of 4/- a theatre matinee ticket.
Mr. Hewitt held that the law provided that the coupons should be redeemable fdr cash, but there was no section which said that if a person contravened that provision he or she could be liable for an offence. Further, though the defendant was charged with having redeemed coupons, the magistrate did not think she had redeemed them.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 219, 12 June 1933, Page 8
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