EARLY CLOSING AND CART DELIVERIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1003, 1 October 1912, Page 3

EARLY CLOSING AND CART DELIVERIES.

People who rush into their grocery shop just before one o’clock on the day of the weekly hall-holiday and wish to have goods delivered the same afternoon are liable to be disappointed in future. Mr Thomson, S.M., held yesterday morning at Palmerston Police Court t! 10 drivers ;n delivery oov mu-.i cease work at the same, tunc :>s the couplet hands. The case was one r: widen a firm wfi.' prosecuted for hr;\ inv Glowc-u groceiio !n U; drafted alter luo dosing henr-. Mr Culver sai.l that be had previously cauls. rod the firm. They told lib, usscc they were awaiting the decision of Mr justice Denuip-uu in an appeal case on the point in Canter bury, lie cautioned them again after Mr Justice Dennison bad decided against their contention. The Magistrate now stated that if there had not been these warnings given he would have treated this as a test case and imposed a nominal fine of perhaps a shilling. But under the circumstances he would fine defendants xos with costs.