SHOPKEEPERS AND THEIR WARES.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 147, 22 June 1904, Page 6

SHOPKEEPERS AND THEIR WARES.

[bt TKLKttnArn — own connKai'os'nsKT.) DUNKDIN, This Day. i In dealing -with a cnMc of .shoplifting, Mr. , l.ialmin, Stipendiary Mugistiatc, coirnnoiU'd in .strong lenns on tho practice <»i ,"shopkee|«srt» di.splaying (heir wuict> oiilrtide (heir premises. Ilu hid no by»<pathy with (.he trader who adopted such lr-ibit". 'L'ho practice .was a uiubt peinic-j-ous one, and should fit* stopped by law.

Messrs. J. 11. Betlumo'tuid Co. offered nt auction (lun afternoon the freehold piopoity .it, the corner of AWlliugton-tei-raei- «nd iMonnt-wlreet, coiittiyling of the M-roo)».(Kl u^idenee known as "ILiwkhill" and a section having froutngcji of 195 ft lOin to tho Teiraee/ 171 ft to Mount.•■tiTet, and 165 ft 6in to a. right-of-way. The pro|)orty wu« pushed iv tit £6400, Alesxix. Helhnne tind Co. also submitted a freehold ncio on Smith-mud belonging to the saino eat-iile. This properly was sold lo Mr. Allan Mnguiru for i! 1200. The New South Wales loptefunlutive A"*sociation team, which' i.s to tour the colony shortly, \\i)\ play in Wellington on (he 7th July. Prior to selecting the Wellington tepiexentative*., Mr. J. J. Itobeits has aiiaiifjod for the following learns to play a trial game N uext Saturday : — A teuni (colours) : (J(»alkeeper, Webster: bucks, P. Roberts and Amies; halves, M. Henai, 15. Clink, J. Taylor; foi wards, l-\ Willi.ims, D. ' Wilson (V.M.C.A.), thinniiijrh.im, A. Mount, and Ruddy. 1$ team' (white): Goalkeeper, Irons ; bucks, L'l.ipham and White ; halves, A. Clark, If. Xngle, 11. Henai ; forwauls, W. jVlouat, Ntewuit, Utodie, Doheitj, Hathaway. The lonpriMtuip locally to-day >lood al 16 deg., a.y iigainsl 48 in" Chi wtelinnh, 13 in Duuedin, anil 60 in Autkland. Mr. A. A. Vile, "editor () f ihe Kkut.ihuiitt K.xpies^, bus intiin.ileil hi- iutt-ut iiVn of bovoming a eundidiito for om> of th.vacant H'iit«- on the Wellington Kduuitiun Boiiid

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