TRADING COUPONS ACT
MAN FINED FOR BREACH. (United Press Association.) Auckland, September 18. An unusual prosecution for a breach of the Trading Coupons Act, 1931, was preferred in the Magistrate’s Court when Arnold E. H. Harrison (Mr Martelli) pleaded guilty to a charge of redeeming coupons otherwise than for cash. Mr V. R. Meredith, who prosecuted, said that the defendant was the Auckland representative of an Australian firm of pattern distributors which issued a publication with coupons offering a free pattern on presentation 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, the second coupons redeemable by the agent in Auckland, but in the third issue the coupon system was dropped altogether. Defendant was an innocent party to the offence. It was a universal custom among fashion journals. A fine of £1 and costs was imposed.
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Southland Times, Issue 22999, 19 September 1936, Page 5
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