UNUSUAL PROSECUTION
DISPLAY OF CALICO SIGN "AN ANTIQUATED BY-LAW" [BT TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday Under what was described, as an antiquated by-law resurrected from dusty files John J. Fitzpatrick was charged yesterday with displaying a calico sign on a van in Cathedral Square during the "New Zealand shopping week." Counsel for defendant said the bylaw dated back to the days of horse vehicles, when it was an offence to frighten horses through the flapping of calico signs. The information was dismissed, the magistrate, Mr. E. D. Mosley, holding that t.ie offence was trivial.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21505, 31 May 1933, Page 14
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