SECOND-HAND DEALERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22397, 19 October 1934, Page 10

SECOND-HAND DEALERS

AMENDING LEGISLATION CONCESSIONS TO OPPOSITION (From. Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, October 18. Amendments to the Second-hand Dealers Amendment Bill, circulated in the House of Representatives to-night, 'embody,the demands made on theJMinister of Defence (Mr J. G. Cobbe) when the Bill was previously before the House. The-original measure sought to prohibit second-hand dealers from selling goods they bought before one month had elapsed from the date of the purchase, this restriction being designed to assist the police to trace stolen goods. A strong argument was put forward by the Opposition that this clause would hinder unduly the legitimate business of dealers, and the Minister was persuaded to consider the advisability of changing his Bill by inserting a schedule containing certain classes of goods which should not be sold within a month. To-night’s amendment provides thal the 4 following classes of goods shall not be sold within one month of the purchase date: —Articles of gold, silver, platinum, copper, brass, bronze or pewter, or any combination of such metals, bicycles and motor ■ cycles and spare parts and the accessories thereof, cameras, clocks and watches, gramophones and phonographs, field glasses and other optical instruments of any kind, firearms and other weapons of any kind, furs, jewellery and jewels and all articles of personal adornment, overcoats and raincoats, motor vehicle tools, spare parts and accessories, musical instruments, radio telegraphonic, radio telegraphic and radio vision receiving and transmitting instruments and all parts thereof and apparatus and articles used in connection therewith, text books other than books used exclusively for primary or secondary education, tools of trade, travelling rugs, and typewriters. The amendment also empowers the Government by Order-in-Council to add to or remove, from the list any class of articles it may think fit.