ITINERANT TRADER

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3742, 10 June 1932, Page 5

ITINERANT TRADER

License Fee Proposal ADVICE FROM STRATFORD showed, now it coild be DOXK BOROUGH COFNCI'E DECISION PEDLARS AYII.L NOW HAVE TO PAY THEIR WAY Following; tip a proposal made by (r_ S. I). I •caret 1 , t-ii© Borough C'ofiin-<-I oHiM il enquiries to be mad<- icu guiding tho charging <>]= a li.cc.nsQ 1. ; ioi itinciant traders in. tbo bm% <,ugh. and last night the Finance Committee included the Following clause in : t s report: STBATFOHD’S BY-LAW Advice has been received from tS> Stratford Bojoiigii. Council <;£ the Following by-iaw: “An itinerant trader 'not being a licensed hawker or pedlar) shall include every pei'«on who shall rota’l godd* by. taking orders by sample Rt delivery in. the Borough From any business place or place s within tl»o Borough or whe may take premises wit-hin. th c Borough ter the sale of got d* within the IF rough for any period less than .s'* 111 >nths. And any person who trades in a Borough as an it. i nor, ant trader without having been li. ens-ed shall he guilty <?£ an offence The license fee for every itinerant trader shall be. Co. Pi vided, liow- < ver. that any a toll fee shall be l**funded if any snob trader remains continuously in business in the Borough for six moil SFCGESTTON ADOPTED Tho Committee recommend that step s he taken to frame the necessary 1 by-law on the lines r/t out above. 'the clause was adopted. BRIEF 1M SOT SSI ON Discussing tji'e pnopceatl members of t-lie Council referred to the (,oinsiderable number of hawke-r s and ] edlai s visiting the borough. Tin- Mayor Raid pedlars were re-, quire cl to pay a fee. of £‘l. It. wa- stated that evidently some <tin ptdlars were escopin<r t'ilP;