VERY OLD LAW!
SUNDAY OBSERVANCE ACT
BECOMES PROMINENT LOCALLY
Referred to by the Bench at the Whakatane Court as a "very old law" when two shopkeepers were prosecuted for selling on Sundays, a«d adversely criticised and described as ancient by Mr T. P. president of the Ohope Ratepayers' and Progress League, the regulations against shops selling on Sundays have come into prominence in this town. That such lswvs may have been a legacy from the days of Queen Anne or from the Puritan era under Oliver Cromwell was stated, and in this assertion the president was nearer than possibly he realised. The law. originated in 1677 when the Sunday Observance Act was introduced in England and the New Zealand law was, of course, modelled from this, obsolete act. There have been minor amendments but substantially,,'it appears, the ruling is the same. Mr Dowling's remarks on the subject were more in reference to'lhe application of the law to Ohope, and it is his hope that such should not be applied to beach tourist resorts, being in need of repeal completely, or not enforced, as is the case with such antiquated and futile Acts such qs The Anti-Shouting Laws.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 309, 23 May 1941, Page 5
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197VERY OLD LAW! Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 309, 23 May 1941, Page 5
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