A TEST CASE
SHOPKEEPER FINED FOR BREACH _ Oir CLOSING REGULATIONS. 53 (By TeleirraiS.—Press Association.? Dunedln, August 6. Judgment was delivered by Mr. Bartholomew,. S.M., this morning in the prosecution of Ann Goliar, charged with failing.to close her grocery shop at tlio statutory closing hour on the half-holiday, one o'clock. Dofendant ran : a grocery and confectionery business combined, and put up a partition with doors, which wcro locked on this occasion, creating what was contended to he two separate shops. This partition did not run right to tho • street door, and access from the street had to bo gained from th'o main door some feet distant from the door in tho partition. Tho Magistrate said that-if tho street door were closed the grocery business could not ho carried on. Ho was of opinion that the street-door and tho space to the door in tho partition wore portion of tho grocery promises, and tho shop theieforo was not closod. Tho street door was a common door for customers to'.both promises, and tho structural alterations foil short of creating two separate shops. Doing a tost case, defendant. was merely: lined ss. and costs 7s. , .
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2534, 7 August 1915, Page 15
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191A TEST CASE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2534, 7 August 1915, Page 15
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