A PECULIAR CASE
DEFINITION OF SECONDHAND DEALER, * INYERCARGILX., February 20. A peculiar case was heard by Mr G. Cruicksbank, S.M., to-day, when a bicycle and repairer was charged with carrying on the business of a secondhand dealer without a license. The case concerned a stolen bicycle which had been purchased by defendant in the course of his business from a man who. gave a fictitious address. The police contended that a person who did any secondhand dealing besides his own business was within the< Act and required a license. For tho defence it was argued that the isolated. purchaso of secondhand machines did not bring a cyclo agent within the definition of a secondhand dealer. If that were so every man who accepted secondhand articles in part payment for a new one would require a iicens*. Defendant had never before purchased bicycles from people he did not know personally, and in thii case he had taken the name and address of the vendor. Decision was reserved.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3442, 2 March 1920, Page 55
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