SALE OF TOBACCO.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20323, 3 February 1928, Page 9

SALE OF TOBACCO.

NEW REGULATIONS IN OPERATION.

(Pee United Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, February 2. Provisions relative to the sale of tobacco, etc., by non-tobacconists in towns with a population of over 5000 came into operation on Wednesday. It is provided that where a notice vis gazetted pursuant to a requisition to fix the closing hours signed by no fewer than two-thirds of the occupiers of tobacconists’ shops in the district, all other shops in the district in which smoking requisites are sold must be closed at the hour dr hours set out in the notice. By reason of this provision, however, the shops affected will not be required to close before 6 o’clock in the evening on four working days of the week other than the statutory half-holiday or before 9 o|clock .on the late nights. It is also provided that as soon as, practicable after the publication of the Gazette notice every occupier of a shop which is required to be so closed must notify the inspector of factories that he sells smoking requisites, and any occupier who afterwards commences the sale of those goods must also notify the inspector.

The provisions do not apply to hotels, private hotels, or boarding-houses so long as any smoking requisites sold after hours are sold only to bona fide lodgers.