SALE OF CIGARETTES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5089, 16 February 1927, Page 2

SALE OF CIGARETTES.

lIALF-HOLIDAY UNOBSERVED.

LOCAL SHOPKEEPER CONVICTED

An unusual case so far as Paeroa is concerned was heard at. the local Court, before Mr F. W. Platts, S.M., on Monday, when Mrs M. J. Dunlop, confecti'qier, Paeroa, was charged, on the information of the Inspector of Factories, with, failing to close, her shop at the hour of’ 1 p.m. on the day fixed as the statutory half-holiday at Paeroa. Mr R. S. Carden appeared for defendant and entered a plea of guilty.

Constable McClinchy, who is the local inspector of shops and offices, stated that two officers of the Labour Department had called at the shop on the day in question and had Teen supplied with cigarettes. On a subsequent half-holiday the shop was again open for the sale of cigarettes, despite the warning that .had been given.

Mr C. E. H. Yarnell, inspector of shops and offices, Hamilton, tendered corroborative evidence. Mr Carden admitted that a few cigarettes had been kept for sale. On the day in question the defendant was absent and the sale had been inadvertently made by the defendant’s young daughter. Defendant regretted the circumstances, and was not now carrying stocks of cigarettes. It had been a common practice tp stock cigarettes, but the profit made was infinitesimal and was not a livelihood. The case was not a serious one, and he asked that a heavy penalty should not be inflicted.

The magistrate stated that a breach of the Act had been committed. Defendant would be convicted and fined 10s, with cos’s amounting to £1 10s.