BREACH OF COUPONS ACT
EXCHANGE FOR PATTERNS FINE IN CITY COURT (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. An unusual prosecution for a breach of the Trading Coupons Act, 1931, was preferred in the Magistrate's Court yesterday when Arnold E. 11. 1. Harrison (Mr. Martelli) pleaded guilty to a charge of redeeming coupons otherwise than for cash. Mr. P. .Meredith, who prosecuted, said that the defendant was the Auckland representative of an Australian firm of pattern distributors which issued a pub, lication with coupons offering a free pattern on the presentation of the coupon to the distributor. It was not a bad offence. The prosecution was brought to give the matter publicity. The practice was cutting into legitimate trading. The publication was a fashion catalogue, said Mr. Martelli. The first publication contained coupons redeemable in Victoria and the second coupons redeemable by an agent in Auckland, but in the third issue, the coupon system was dropped altogether. The defendant was an innocent party to an offence. It was a universal custom among fashion journals. A fine of £1 and costs was imposed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19124, 19 September 1936, Page 5
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