ILLEGAL BILL-STICKING.
CONVICTION AT HAMILTON.
[by TELEGRAPH.-— own correspondent.]
HAMILTON. Friday.
The first prosecution of its kind in Hamilton was heard at the Magistrate's Conrt today, when., before Mr. H. A. Toiing, S.M., Charles Healey, picture theatre manager, was charged with affixing posters, handbills, and dodgers for advertising purposes on private property adjoining a street, within the Borough of Hamilton, without the consent of the owner or occupier of the premises. Mr. W. J. King, for defendant, pointed out that the traffic inspector had brought the prosecution simply to act as a warning to others. Owing to an assistant not being available, Healey had to paste up tho notices himself. He took* care to place his bills over the exact spot occupied by posters from previous shows. He thought that by simply placing them oyer the old posters lie was not committing an offence. The Inspector: He even stock one on my motor-cycle when it wis standing outside my office. (Laughter,) Defendant was fined SI, and Court costs, 7s,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18885, 6 December 1924, Page 12
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