SEQUEL TO A HARVEST FESTIVAL.
(Pee United Press Association.) XKW PLYMOUTH, Anril 30. Before Mr Riddle. S.M., to-day It. F. Roebuck was fined £10 and costs for having sold goods by auction, he being unlicensed. Defendant officiated as auctioneer in disposing of the thank offerings at a Methodist harvest festival ill tho country, and pleaded that the offence was committed in ignorance. The Magistrate said he could not inlliot a less fine than £10, but on the suggestion of defendant's counsel, ho agreed lo mako representations to the department asking that the penalty bo remitted and only a nominal fine imposed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13891, 1 May 1907, Page 5
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