BREACH OF FACTORIES ACT
SHOP KEPT OPEN TOO LATE. Charged with failing to close his grocery shop from the hour of 6 p.in, John Yep, who pleaded, guilty, was convicted and ordered to pay costs £1 at the Opunake Court yesterday. Mr. C. P. Smith, inspector of factories, stated that in accordance with, the requisition grocers’ shops in Opunake w ere required to close at six o'clock on tour days of the week and. ten o'clock on Saturdays. At 6.20 p.m. on Friday, April 15, he was in Yep's shop when small sales were made to lour custodiers. Though not required to close tjill 6 p.m. the other grocers’ shops in the town closed at 5.30 p.m Counsel stated, that Yep at the tiv'iie was managing the. shop for his failicr and “did not know any better.” l(-lis father was now back again and thpre wquld be no recurrence of the offence,
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 June 1932, Page 10
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