ALLEGED COUPONS BREACH
COURT CHARGE! DISMISSED. ISSUE OF THEATRE TICKETS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) GISBORNE, June 10. The decision that no offence had been committed with given by Mr. Hewitt, S.M., this modning in a prosclent,!on under the trading coupons legislation and in which Mrs. Eastwood, bookseller, was defendant consequent on having issued theatre matinee tickets to purchasers of school books to the value of four shillings. The magistrate held that the law provided that coupons should be redeemable for cash, but there was no section which said that if a person contravened that provision he could be liable for an offence. Further, though the defendant was charged with having redeemed coupons, the magistrate did not think she had redeemed them.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 10 June 1933, Page 9
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120ALLEGED COUPONS BREACH Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 10 June 1933, Page 9
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