BREACHES OF AWARD

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 55, 6 March 1914, Page 7

BREACHES OF AWARD

SELLING CIGARETTES AFTER HOURS. } "In spite of numerous cases brought into Coupt, the trade goes Oil nightly," said Mr. Roland T. Bailey, Inspector of Awards, in the Magistrate's Court today, while proceedings' were being taken against Chinese storekeepers for selling cigarettes after 8 p.m. on ordinary week days. "I ask your Worship to inflict a heavier penalty," said the inspector. Miiig On Tie, who had been previously convicted of the offence, was fined 40s \wTfi 7s cost*. Joe Lee Brothers and W. Lee and Company were fined in each case 10s, with 7s costs for a similar offence by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M. Robert Sinclair, grocer, was charged with failing to close his shop at 1 p.m. on the statutory half-holiday. Mr. W. Parry, who appeared for the defendant, pleaded guilty on behalf of his client, stating that the shop had not been closed at 1 p.m. because there was a new boy employed who did not know the town. He was fined 10s, with 7s costs. , Mrs. E. Wilson, bookseller, was charged with failing to keep a wages and time-book showing the names of the assistants employed, hours worked^ wages paid, and other particulars required by the Shops and Offices Act, Defendant, who stated that she had been in business fifteen months, but was not aware that she was compelled to keep a wages-book, was fined 9s, costs of Court.

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