STAMP DUTY LAW.
CASE WITHOUT PRECEDENT. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 26. No precedent in New Zealand law' could i;c found on a point raised in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, when William George McNeill was charged with writing a receipt liable for stamp duty without affixing a stamp, and with twelve charges of dividing moneys over £2 so as to avoid pavimr stamp duty.
Evidence was given that McNeill had co.:emca rent totalling £2 5s fortnightly and entered it as weekly payments of 22s 6d.
Mr Bowie (for McNeill) said lie was unable to find a precedent for the case.
Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., offered to mane tiie penalty £6 so that a test case could be made, but after further legal argument a penalty of 20s on the first charge was entered, McNeill being convicted and discharged on the others.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 256, 26 September 1935, Page 8
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