SUNDAY TRADING
With several previous convictions against him, William Collins, of Courtenay-place, was charged in the Magistrate's Court today with keeping his shop open for business on a Sunday. ■ Inspector Marsack stated that in view of the fact that the maximum penalty provided by Statute (20s) was such a.farcical; business, it was useless to labour the' fact that the defendant had a "record" ■Mr..-L'G. Reid, S.M.: "If the fines fail to act as a deterrent the proper courso should be to make representations to the authorities to have the Act amended." His Worship imposed the maximum penalty; Defendant was represented by Mr. H. F. O'Leary.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 106, 4 May 1917, Page 8
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105SUNDAY TRADING Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 106, 4 May 1917, Page 8
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