For selling a single cigarette to a child for a penny a Greytown Chinese shop assistant was fined £2 and costs. The Magistrate pointed out that it was an offence to sell, cigarettes or tobacco to .any child under 15 years of age, even though they were sent by their parents to purchase them.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4908, 27 November 1925, Page 4
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