Can an inanimate machine break the la*?? This was the poser presented to a stipendiary magistrate at Sydney. Cn board the ferry steamboats there are penny-in-the-sioc machines-. Some of these yield a packet of cigarettes in exchange for a coin. They do this on Sunday as well as on any "other day of the week, r.nd the proprietor was proceeded against by an inspector for breaking the law relafcinp; to Sunday trading. "How about the penny-in-tbe-slol <-an meter?" shrewdly inquired the Magistrate. The case was dismissed, the Magistrate say in;.: thai; he wasn't satisfied that the machine could he regarded as the "a;_'er;t" 01' the vendor. The cigarette machine case is complicated by Urn fact that tobacconist?, are prohibited from supplying children under a certain aac: but the machine of course, can exercise no discrimination.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 620, 19 November 1913, Page 2
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135Untitled King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 620, 19 November 1913, Page 2
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