SUNDAY TRADING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26176, 12 June 1946, Page 3

SUNDAY TRADING

FRUITERER’S OFFENCE

Chee How Limm, for whom Mr A. R Tait appeared, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday afternoon, before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., to a charge of keeping open his shop for the purpose of transacting business. Senior Sergeant D. Wilson said that, as 3 result' of complaints, the police had kept the premises under observation. On cne Sunday afternoon two bottles of soft drink and a bag of tomatoes had been taken away from the shop, and when the police entered the defendant’s Chinese assistant' was selling apples. The sports edition of a newspaper was also being sold at the shop on Sunday, and naturally the newsagents' had protested. Mr Tait said that the defendant owned the shop, which was conducted by his wife and another Chinese assistant. On the particular day, his wife was away from the shop and the assistant was In charge. The defendant admitted the offence, said Mr Tait, but it was one which was being carried on throughout the country. The defendant was unaware of the fact that he was breaking the law bv selling papers on a Sunday. The magistrate said that where a man carried on a soft drink business, which was permissible on Sundays, in conjunction with some other part of the business which should be clos d, he contravened the law to the disadvantage of other shopkeepers. Limm was fined £3 10s and costs (10s). Breach of Probation Order Clifford Robert Victor Irvine pleaded guilty to a breach of his probation order. In that he failed to report to the probation officer. A . . ... Senior Sergeant Wilson stated tnat tne accused was admitted to probation in December, 1944, at Oamaru for a term of six months, and was m May last given a further six months’ probation breach of the first order. He was before the court in Dunedin on a charge of theft in July, 1945, and was admitted to a further 12 months’ probation which was to follow the previous terms. He reported regularly while he was in Oamaru after the last conviction, and in August, 1945. he was “ man-powered to Wellington, where he last reported in October. 1940. When arrested in Oamaru in May ot this year, the accused explained that he thought his term had expired at the end of the second six months. ... . Mr A. Hamilton, who represented Irvine, said the accused was under a misapprehension about his term. Had he been left .in Oamaru instead of go ng to a strange place and into a city, he would have been perfectly safe. Senior Sergeant Wilson stated that the accused’s conduct had been quite satisfactory. The magistrate said he would glv6 Irvine another chance, and placed him on probation for 12 months from the date bf the hearing. A request for suppression of his name was refused. Traffic Offences William Alexander Tait was fined £2 (costs 10s) for exceeding the heavy motor vehicle speed limit of 25 miles an hour.— Alan Tiddy was fined £2 (costs 10s) for a similar offence. The Transport Department (Inspector L. E. Simmonds) proceeded against Albert Leonard Hill for driving without a driver’s licence. He was fined 5s (costs 12s).—Henry Frederick McCully, for operating an unlicensed motor vehicle, was fined 8s (costs 12s).—James Thomas O’Brien, for exceeding the heavy motor vehicle speed limit of 25 miles per hour, was fined £2 8s (costs 12s)