SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT.
TOBACCO AS A SIDE LINE.
[Per United Press Association.]
WELLINGTON', October 4. The Inspector of Awards proceeded against- five Chinese fruiterers in the Magistrate’s Court to-day for failing to dose their shops in accordance with the gazetted requisition fixing the hours of chops for selling tobacco." When the cases were called” counsel for the department said lie had advised the department that the defendants had not committed an offence.. A mistake had arisen through the officials reading subsection 2, section 25, of the Shops and Offices Act in a popular sense, not knowing that, the section had alreadybeen' construed by the Supreme Court in a contrary way. In the present cases the defendants were fruiterers, and it could not be said they were carrying on the particular trade of tobacconists merely because they sold tobacco as a eide line. The requisition did not apply to them. The informations were’ dismissed, with, costs (£2 2s) against the department.
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Evening Star, Issue 14688, 4 October 1911, Page 4
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161SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT. Evening Star, Issue 14688, 4 October 1911, Page 4
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