SHOPKEEPERS FINED
.'■ For/failing to close their shops at the required hour, nine shopkeepers were each fined 10s by Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate's Cfcurt yesterday. They were Frederick Wilson, William Anderson, Mrs. Kate Haynes, Mrs. Florence Heale, F. P. James, N. Latimer, Parag Eamehhod,' W. H. Skinner, and Mrs. M. Stanley.
Mr. J. Georgcson, of the Labour Department, said that they occupied dairy, confectionery, and fruit shops, and stocked cigarettes. A requisition signed by two-thirds of the tobacconists in Wellington made it necessary that all shops selling tobacco goods must be closed at 8 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, with provision for the half-holiday. Numerous complaints ■ had been received from tobacconists, and tha defendants had been caught selling .tobacco goods after the permitted hour. All the defendants were first offenders, but a number of them had been warned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 145, 16 December 1933, Page 29
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