SUNDAY TRADING
SMALL SHOPKEEPERS PROSECUTED. WELLINGTON, August 7. Charged with selling goods on a Sunday, Albert William Best was to-day ordered to pay costs (10s). Defendant’s counsel said a little boy had gone into the shop on Sunday with a note, which asked for a loaf of bread, some cheese, and some water biscuits. ’* I would be very glad if you could oblige us, as we had no money yesterday, and we have nothing in the house to eat,” the note concluded. It contained 2s. The defendant gave the boy the goods. On coming out the boy was stopped by a constable.. On similar charges, Maud Stewart and John Edward Scears were each fined £l. These shops were watched, because children pass them on the way to Sunday school, and parents have complained that they spent money in ways other than for the purpose which was intended, said Subinspector Lopdell. Little girls had been slopped coming out with sticks of chocolate.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4039, 11 August 1931, Page 33
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161SUNDAY TRADING Otago Witness, Issue 4039, 11 August 1931, Page 33
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