AN ITINERANT TRADER.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21148, 4 October 1930, Page 14

AN ITINERANT TRADER.

LOCAL BODY’S ACTION. (Per United Press Association.) TAIHAPE, October 3. His reserved judgment was delivered to-day by the magistrate (Mr Watson) in the case Taihape Borough versus Edgar Spiers, salesman for a company in Wellington, allegedly carrying on the business of an itinerant trader without a license. The magistrate said: “ The claim is that the goods were exhibited at Taihape with the object of sale by sample; hence defendant was held to be an itinerant trader according to the Act. I think this contention incorrect. There is nothiug to show that defendant exposed goods for sale, or that he could enter into a contract for the sale of goods, samples or otherwise. On the contrary, it was intimated that the goods displayed ,-ere not for sale, but were only samples from which defendant war prepared to take orders to be executed from Wellington. There is no proof that an order robe fulfilled by defendant in Taihape or elsewhere. Defendant’s position is similar to that of a commercial traveller who takes orders from the public for his principal.” The information was dismissed. An appeal is likely.