A "COMMERCIAL'S" SAMPLES.
11TRAYED BY BRICK-DUST.
(Pn Pans Association.)
DUNEDIN, Sent. 5. 'At the Police Court. James Wilson, a •ommercia) .traveller, was fined £5 and costs for selling samples. Defendant was the holder of a commercial traveller's special ticket, allowing him to take luggage round the country within a certain radius. At Gore he sold some samples and made up the weight by substituting bricks. A train of brick-dust was laid, and the Department at Dunedin seized the luggage and found the bricks. Counsel for defendant pleaded that this was really a test The practice had been going; on for years, and no prosecutions previously had taken placo in this part of the Dominion.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9589, 5 September 1913, Page 5
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114A "COMMERCIAL'S" SAMPLES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9589, 5 September 1913, Page 5
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