Two Hamilton newsvendors were yesterday fined 10s 6d and costs for selling newspapers on Sunday. The facts were admitted, but defendants’ counsel held that although no person was allowed to work at his calling on Sunday, -fchoro were certain exemptions, one being preparing, printing, or publishing a daily paper, and submitted that the term publishing was intended to cover the sale of newspapers whenever and wherever offered to the public by the proprietor. The defendants were thus engaged in publication. The Magistrate held that defendants were not engaged in publication, but were independent contractors, purchasing . papers which they sold to make a profit Wor themselves.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 20 May 1926, Page 9
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105Page 9 Advertisements Column 1 Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 20 May 1926, Page 9
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