SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT.
CHINESE SHOPKEEPER?- FINED. [BY TELEGRAI'H. — • ASSOCIATION.] l
' Wellington, We-inasday. '.■-. At the Magistrate's Court : to-day Pock Lee and Co. and You Lee pleaded guilty to charges of selling and delivering cigarettes and tobacco after eight p.m. on December 3 and 6 respectively. The informations were laid under the Shops and Offices Act Amendment Act, 1907,; prohibiting shopkeepers from selling tobacco after the hours at which tobacconists are required to close their shops. Defendants had been warned by the Department inspectors of the new legislation, but had persisted in selling goods. His Worship took into consideration the fact that the law was a recent one, and that these were probably the first proceedings under it, and penalised each defendant with a fine of 20s and costs. In the case of Fook Lee and Co. the costs amounted to £1 0s 3d, and j in You Lee's case to 12s 3d.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13625, 19 December 1907, Page 6
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