SUNDAY TRADING
— Press Association.)
High Fines Threatened
(By L'elegraph-
AUOKLANP, Thjs Daj. An indication that the fines for Sunday trading would be- considerably increased if the offence showed no signs of abating under the present scsfte of fines was given by Mr C. R. Grr Walker, S.M., in the Police Court, when shopkeepers wero prosecuted. Sub-inspector Eox said that in spite of the fact that upward of 100 prosecutions had been instituted withiu tlie last 12 months the practice had continued and further prosecutions were pending. The coniplaints had been received by the police from the grocers, tobacconists and fruiterers' asaociation. "The matter has become really serious," said "Sub-inspector Fox, "prosecutions and fines have apparent Ly had no effect in stopping this illegal practice."
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBHETR19370719.2.52
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 155, 19 July 1937, Page 6
Word Count
124SUNDAY TRADING Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 155, 19 July 1937, Page 6
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in