DOCKETS FOR SALES.
DO NOT CONSTITUTE RECEIPTS,
MAGISTERIAL RULE
WELLINGTON, This Day,
A case of unusual interest concluded yesterday, when the Magistrate delivered his decision in the case Police versus D.I.C. . The charge was that defendants wrote a receipt for £2 liable to duty without being stamped. The defendant firm claimed that the docket issued at the time of the sail* was 'not intended for a receipt, but merely as a check upon goods going out of the shop and on money received. It was proved in evidence that it was the practice of defendants to have a docket made out in respect to every sale, whether for caslx or on credit tivit took place in their establishment, and that this practice exists throughout the whole trade in New Zealand.
After dealing*extensively with authorities the Magistrate in his judgment said that the objcct of the docket was to inform the purchaser of detr .'s of his purfhpe and to enable 'the <*ipartment to keep a record of business done. The charge was dismissed. - Press Assn.
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Northern Advocate, 25 July 1923, Page 5
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