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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1968, 2 January 1907, Page 4

A t Invercargill recently a shopkeeper was convicted and fined ill and ordered to pay coots for- “ failing to close his shop at one o’clock for the remainder of the day.” It was shown that defendant’s son was back at work ruling up defendant's ledger on the ba'f-holiday in question, and while so engaged admitted a customer, to whom he effected a sale. The door at the time of the customer’s admittance was locked, and the magistrate ruled that although it is possible for a shopkeeper's assistants to bo employed in the shop after hours, and yet for the shop to ho closed, yet if a locked door is unlocked and remains unlocked whilst a customer is admitted, and a sale effected, the shop is not closed “ jjt the hour of one o’clock in the afternoon for the remainder of the day," os required by the Act of 1904. The more fact that defendant was not aware that his son was on the premises did not relieve defendant from liability, and although the sen was committing acts not only prohibited by statute, but by defendant, the latter was nevertheless liable. This was the first case of the kind heard in the colonv.

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