SAMPLES EXHIBITED

Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1930, Page 5

SAMPLES EXHIBITED

QUESTION OF UNLICENSED TRADING. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) TAIHAPE, October 3. Reserved judgment was delivered today by Magistrate Watson in the ease, Taihape Borough versus Edgar Spiers, salesman for the company in Well niton, allegedly carrying on the business of an itinerant trader without a license. The Magistrate said that t claim is t-hat goods were exhibited at Taihape with the object of sale by sample. Hence the defendant was held to be an itinerant trader, according to the Act. The Magistrate continued : "I think that this contention is incorrect. There is nothing to show that the defendant exposed goods for sale, or that he could enter into a contract for the sale of goods, sample or otherwise. On the contrary, it was intimated that the goods displayed were not for sale. There were only samples from which the defendant was prepared to take orders to be. executed from Wellington. There had been no proof that an order was to be fulfilled by tlie defendant in Taihape. or elsewhere. The defendant’s position was similar to that of a commercial traveller who takes orders from tlie public for his principal.” The information was dismissed. An appeal is likely.