THE SHOP AND SHOP ASSISTANT'S ACT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sir, — Wouldn't it be a joke if a few hotelkeepers, innkeepers, or publicans, were to be convicted for breach of this atrocious Act, with the full penalties of £5? And if so, shouldn't we pretty soon hear of an agitation for its repeal? They all occupy a " building or portion of a building 1 or place in which goods are exposed or offered for sale by retail ;" (which is the definition of a shop) for instance, they all have bars in which they are ready to supply anyone by retail with wine, beer, spirits, cigars, biscuits, and, no doubt, bread and cheese, and neither of them carry on eoccltmvehj the business of a coffeehousekeeper or eating- housekeeper (two of the excepted trades in the Act). Ihe definition of the word " goods," per the Imperial lexicon, is as follows : — " Moveables ; household furniture. Personal or moreable estate. Wares; merchandise; commodities bought and sold by merchants and traders." I am, etc., Saml. Goodbehbbz. Feildiag, 14th March, 1895.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 218, 15 March 1895, Page 2
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176THE SHOP AND SHOP ASSISTANT'S ACT. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 218, 15 March 1895, Page 2
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