SALE OF CIGARETTES
FINES FOR SUNDAY TRADING “This is just an ordinary case of Sunday trading. There have been complaints about it in Wanganui,” said Sergeant J. F. Bennington in the Magistrate’s Court, Wanganui, yesterday, when Iris Winifred Hannett, was charged with selling cigarettes on a Sunday. She was fined £l, costs 10s. Constable A. A. Fraser said he stood outside defendant’s shop in Heads Road at 2.30 p.m. on September 27 and saw two youths emerge with cigarettes. One of the youths subsequently identified defendant as the person vvho had sold them to him. The magistrate commented that defendant had written to the Court admitting the offence. Annie Alfreda Sutton, occupier of a restaurant in Victoria Avenue, admitted a similar charge and was also fined £l, costs 10s. Constable Fraser said he saw cigarettes being sold to a soldier at 7.35 p.m. on September 27. When questioned defendant said she had only sold the cigarettes to oblige the boys.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 241, 13 October 1942, Page 3
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