ILLEGAL PRACTICE
A LITTLE-KNOWN LAW SALE OF NEWSPAPERS ON SUNDAY (Per United Press Association) BLENHEIM, October 23. Believed to be the first prosecution of the kind in the Dominion, two Blenheim confectioners, Ernest Radd and Bertie Hester, were convicted this morning of selling newspapers in their shops on a Sunday, the papers concerned being sporting publications issued in Wellington on Saturday and arriving in Blenheim on The magistrate (Mr T. E. Maunsell) remarked that the case would come as rather a shock to the newspapers concerned. Sergeant Smythe: It will come as rather a shock to the whole of New Zealand, but it is illegal and must be brought to a The magistrate, who confessed that he had bought one of the papers himself on a Sunday, entered a conviction without penalty.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22710, 24 October 1935, Page 8
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132ILLEGAL PRACTICE Otago Daily Times, Issue 22710, 24 October 1935, Page 8
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