NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

Hastings Standard, Issue 39, 11 June 1896, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

GENERAL ITEM.i. Wklt.CC.tox, Jim;: 10. In the Magistral-'.;'.-! Court W. H. Franklyn, of J nglewood, wascherged with having export.-1 240 ho:-:. 1 - of butter !j,:L st:::n;uil as iv.,;;ir. i-y tile i/aisy industry Act. ; .Taornton, (•if..-L'ument produce grader, stated that he learned that the butter was about to be exported from Wellington. It came from New Plymouth in the Takapuna, and was being transhipped for Sydney. There was 110 brand on the boxes as required by the Act, and no registered number. Witness wired to defendant, who was the owner, telling him that if he desired witness would stamp it hero. The butter, however, was not held back, but was exported without being stamped. Thereupon he instituted • proceedings. The case was adjourned for a fortnight. I.\VKncAß(iii.L, Wednesday.

At the annual meeting of the Wallace Licensing Committee the chairman, Mr Poynton, S.M., said he was satisfied that nine-tenths of the Sunday trading could be put down by a .simple amendment of the Act making any person found on licensed premises after hours or on Sunday liable to a penalty. The committee resolved that the Minister of Justice be requested to insert such a clause in the Act, to bring it into comforihity with the English law imposing a penalty on persons found on licensed premises during prohibited hours.