SUNDAY TRADING.
[Pee Press Association.] GISBORNE, August 26. A country hotelkeeper was fined £lO, and costs £2 3s, for Sunday trading. The evidence showed that four men went into the hotel and were supplied with drinks! They' went in and out of the hotel on four subsequent occasions within an hour, being on each occasion supplied with drink; Throe of the witnesses were each supplied with five pints of liquor, two being intoxicated when leaving the hotel. It was not disputed that they were bona fide travellers, but Sergeant Siddells contended that tiaveliers may he supplied with liquor on arrival from a journey only, and the Magistrate supporting this view, held that the second and subsequent sales ire re illegal. “A more disgraceful case than this,” said MiBarton, S.M., “I have neven heard, men hawing, through drink obtained, been led to commit offences. I ami quite satisfied that Sunday trading is carried' on in this district to a considerable extent, and’ when a charge is proved I shall make the penalty substantial. Many of the publicans appear to be courting prohibition, and they will assuredly get it if the present state of things continues.” His Worship ordered the conviction to' be endorsed on the license.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CX, Issue 13216, 27 August 1903, Page 3
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205SUNDAY TRADING. Lyttelton Times, Volume CX, Issue 13216, 27 August 1903, Page 3
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