COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11636, 14 August 1905, Page 7

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Chinese Shopkeeper Fined.

' (Per United Press Association.) MASTEETON, August 14.

At the Court this morning, boforc Mr W. P. James, S.M., a Chinaman named Uea Gen was fined 10s, and costs 7s, for supplying cigarettes to a boy under 15 years of age.- The boy was charged with smoking, and was convicted and discharged. The same Chinaman was also charged with keeping his shop open after the hours fixed by requisition of the shopkeepers. Defendant, who carried on business- as a grocer and fruiterer, divided his shop by a. wooden partition, one part belli,? closed, and the other kept open. Tlie S.M. held that the two compartments were one shop within the meaning of the. Act, and imposed a fine of Is and costs 7s.