SUNDAY TRADING
AX IMPORTANT DECISION
{Bγ Cable.—Ptfts Association.—Copyright.) (Received November 21st, 9.20 p.m.) SYI>XEY, .November 21. The police recently prosecuted the proprietors of slot machines in use on board the* ferry steamers on a charge of Sunday trading. The magistrate dismissed the action, holding that a machine was an inanimate thing, and not the agent of defendant, also that no personal service was rendered by anyone. The police appealed, and Mr Justice Ferguson upheld the magistrate's decision. Mr Justice Ferguson agreed that a transaction by which cigarettes came into the possession of purchasers constituted Sunday trading, and trading by the proprietor of tho machines, but no offence could be committed under the Act except when it involved human labour and attention on Sunday. He added that it had been urged that tiiis ruling -ivould open the door to tho evasion of the statute for suppressing juvehib smoking. That, however, was a question which had no necessary relation to , Sunday trading, and tho solution of which depended on different considerations.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14830, 22 November 1913, Page 8
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