THE HALF HOLIDAY.
SHOPKEEPERS FINED.
A custom that has obtained for. many years among the shopkeepers in Takapuna was responsible for the appearance in the Magistrate's Court yesterday of three of their number on charges of keeping open on the statutory weekly half-holiday. Mr. W. - Fallon, who appeared for one of the defendants said the assistants had always been given their half-holidays, but the business places had been kept open. That had been done for years—the law was broken in the letter, but not in the spirit. The defendants, said counsel, would not know the Act if they saw it. His client's wife wished to close on the Wednesday afternoon, but the other shopkeepers would reap th 3 benefit if he had agreed. "Auckland people will be going over to Takapuna to shop," said Mr. Kettle, S.M., and he pointed out to the defendants the nature of the breach. Fines of Is each, and costs 7s, were imposed on W. H. Hall, J. J. Sheriff, and T. Brown, who promised to keep within the provisions of the Act in future.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14726, 7 July 1911, Page 9
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180THE HALF HOLIDAY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14726, 7 July 1911, Page 9
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