SUNDAY TRADING.
PEN NY-Ift-TH E-SLOT MACHTR'ES.’
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[United Press Association. ; Svdnev, November 21
The police recently prosecuted the proprietor of the slot machines in use on hoard the ferry steamers on a charge of Sunday trading. The magistrate dismissed the case, holding that the machines were inanimate things and not the agents of the defendant. No personal service was rendered by anyone. The police 7 appealed, and Mr Justice Ferguson.upheld the magistrate. Judge Ferguson agreed that the transaction whereby cigarettes came into the possession of purchasers constituted Sunday trading and trading by the proprietor of the machines, but no offence was committed under the Act except when something occurred involving human labor or attention on Sunday. He added that it had been urged that this ruling would open the door to an invasion of the statute suppressing juvenile smoking. That, however, was a question which had no necessary relation to Sunday trading, and the solution thereof depended on different considerations.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 70, 22 November 1913, Page 5
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162SUNDAY TRADING. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 70, 22 November 1913, Page 5
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