PURCHASE OF GOLD.
MAGISTRATE’S DECISION. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Aug. 26. Mr Bundle, S.M., gave judgment to-day in the case in which Cyril Benjamin, gold and other metal buyer, was charged with a breach of the Second-hand Dealer’s Act in purchasing goods after 6 p.m. The defence raised was that, though he was the holder of a second-hand dealer’s license, there was no necessity for him to be the holder, also that the purchasing of second-hand gold articles did not constitute him such a dealer.
The Magistrate held (1) that it was not for the Court to question the license, which was issued on defendant's application; (2) that the articles bought by defendant were bought for the gold contained and the reduction of the gold by melting was in no sense the manufacture of another article so that defendant did not come within the concluding exemption, “any person wTio purchases such articles for the purpose of manufacturing other articles therefrom.” Defendant was convicted and fined 20s. Security for appeal was fixed. Mr Bundle’s judgment disagrees with Mr Salmon’s given at Wanganui.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 228, 26 August 1932, Page 7
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181PURCHASE OF GOLD. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 228, 26 August 1932, Page 7
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