ADMINISTRATION OF LAW
A "GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT" ALLEGED fP.A.) WELLINGTON, June 6. "There is ho. room; in our of goverhment: for,-,, a.■ ■, gentleman s agreement between a . department- of State and a •section of the community by which that section becomes entitled to commit a breach of the penal law and be immune from prosecution, said Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day in a reserved judgment in a case where a number of bakers were charged with selling short-weight bread. . In evidence, witnesses for the prosecution stated that a gentleman's agreement existed between the department and the bakers that no prosecution would be brought unless the deficiency in a barracouta loaf exceeded 2oz, ~: Fines ranging from £1 were inflicted on each of the five defendant bakers.u. ..: \.^;-:■.., II ■■.■■,..;'£. ■ ;(..•'¥,;'
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24627, 7 June 1941, Page 2
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