SUNDAY TRADING
CASE BEFORE COURT. r ßy Telegraph—Per Press Association) WELLINGTON. August 7. Charged with selling goods on Sunday, Albert Willinpi Best was to-day ordered to pay the costs, ten shillings. Defendant’s counsel said a little hoy had gone into the shop on Sunday with a note which asked : “Be very glad if you could oblige us as we had no money yesterday, and we have nothing in the house.*to eat,” the note concluded. It contained two shillings and defendant gave the boy goods. On coming out the hoy was stopped by a constable. On similar charges, Maud Stewart and John Edward Scears were each' fined. £L .. ... “These shops were watched because children pass them on their way to Sunday School and parents have complained that they spent the money in ways other than, for the purpose which,, it -is . intended,” »' said'. -Sub-Tifspectbr-Londell. “Little girls have been stopped coming out with sticks of chocolate.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1931, Page 6
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154SUNDAY TRADING Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1931, Page 6
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