SUNDAY TRADING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23145, 17 September 1938, Page 11

SUNDAY TRADING

CARRIERS PROSECUTED CONVICTION RECORDED W , [BY TELEGRAPH—OWN CORRESPONDENT] ;: TE AWAMUTU. Friday A firm «of Te Awamutu carriers, Maxwell and Wilson, which operates a large ileet of vehicles, was proceeded against in the Magistrate's Court before Mr. W. H. Freeman, S.M., on a > charge of Sunday trading. It was admitted that general goods were frequently carried on Sundays tb some of the back districts, and putdown at the farmers' gateways along with empty cream cans. The parcels or goods, it was stated, were picked up at Te Awamutu shops on Saturday mornr ings after the cream lorries had delivered the cream to the dairy The lorries were idle the rest of the day, but left town on Sunday mornings about five o'clock. It the parcels could not be carried, as was customa'rj*, they would have to be unloaded at the firm's depot, and reloaded for delivery on Mondays. Counsel for the defendant firm argued that the carriage of goods under the conditions stated was so. near to a service of necessity that it came within the exemption provisions of the Act. It was an olfence, but only a trivial one, and it should be dismissed under the Justices of the Peace Act. The magistrate said he would record a conviction. As it was the first prosecution for some time regarding Sunday trading, however, and no doubt brought to call attention to the law being broken, ho would merely order that costs , 10s, be paid.