“PIRATES OF THE TRADE”
SUNDAY OPENING SHOPS. CONVICTIONS IN COURT. •Several charges of Sunday trading were before the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. The Senior Sergeant of police said that the shopkeepers of the city were complaining bitterly of Sunday traders, whom they described ns “ pirates of the trade/’ They got a license to sell milk, but that was only a guise to keep open. Elizabeth Emily Ingram, Gonville, was fined £1 and costs 10s for sidling articles to George Hutchinson, who was fined a similar amount for aiding and abetting the sale. Frederick G.'Dickie was fined Ids and 10s costs as the Magistrate hold that goods had been exposed only, not sold. Annie Chambers (Mr Willis) was ordered Io pay costs only ,10s t as she had recently taken over the shop ami it was to be more a warning than a penalty.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 146, 23 June 1931, Page 12
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