HALF-HOLIDAY CLOSING.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 429, 7 August 1915, Page 2

HALF-HOLIDAY CLOSING.

IMPORTANT TEST CASE. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin. Aug. 6. Judgment was delivered by Mr. Bartholomew, S.M., yesterday morning, in tie prosecution of Ann Gollar, charged with failing to close her grocery shop at the statutory closing hour for the half-holiday at one o’clock. Defendant ran a grocery and confectionery business business combined, and put up a | partition with doors, which w v ere. ilocked on this occasion, creating. I what was contended to be two seiparate shops. This partition did not run right to the street door, and access from the street had to bo gained from the main door some feet distant from the door in the partition. | The magistrate said that if the • street door were closed the grocery i business could not be carried on. He. opined that the street door and the space to the door in the partition j were a portion of the grocery pre- ‘ raises and the shop therefore was inot closed. The street door was a ■common door for customers to both (premisesf and the structural altera,tions fell short of creating two i separate shops. Being a test case .the defendant was merely fined 5/- ! and costs 7/-.