AN ITINERANT TRADER.
LOCAL BODY’S ACTION. TAIHAPE, October 3.
His reserved judgment was delivered to-day by the magistrate (Mr Watson) in the case Taihape Borough versus Edgar Spiers, salesman for a company in Wellington, allegedly carrying on tho business of an itinerant trader without a license.
The magistrate said: ** The claim is that the goods were exhibited at Taihape with the object of sale by sample; hence defendant was held to be an itinerant trader according to the Act. I think this contention incorrect. There is nothing to show that defendant exposed goods for sale, or that he could enter into a con tract for the sale of goods, samples or otherwise. On the contrary, it was intimated that the goods displayed ere not for sale, but were only samples from which defendant was prepared to take orders to be executed from Wellington. There is no proof that an order »o be fulfilled by defendant in Taihape nr elsewhere. Defendant’s position is simi--1 lar to that of a commercial traveller who takes orders from thv public for his principal.” The information was dismissed An appeal is likely.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3995, 7 October 1930, Page 67
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187AN ITINERANT TRADER. Otago Witness, Issue 3995, 7 October 1930, Page 67
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