BREACH OF COUPONS ACT
not a bad case. AGENT FINED £1 AND COSTS. . I tor Press Association] AUCKLAND, Sept. 18. An unusual prosecution for a breach of the Trading Coupons Act, 1931, was preferred in the Magistrate’s Court when Arnold E. H. 1. Harrison (Mr. Martelli) pleaded guilty to a charge of redeeming coupons otherwise than for cash. Mr. V. Meredith, who prosecuted, said 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 by the agent in Auckland, but in the third issue the coupon system was dropped altogether. The 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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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 222, 19 September 1936, Page 9
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