CHOCOLATES ON SUNDAY
POLICEMAN IN DISGUISE An inoffensive-looking, dark young man called at two shops in Park Road on a Sunday recently, and asked for sticks of chocolate. It should be as easy to pick a policeman disguised as an ordinary mortal, but that was the catch in the game. Isot/el Hill sold, and so did Ray Lett, and charges were heard against them by Mr. W~ R. McKean, S.M., yesterday, together with a charge against Rowland Hill, husband of the first-named, for keeping a shop open on Sunday. Rowland Hill appeared, and pleaded guilty. It was pleaded for him that he had a notice in his tea-shop that goods purchased were to be consumed on the premises, but he was out, and his wife was led away by the pleadings of the disguised police officer, and sold a fourpenny cake of chocolate. The Hills were fined £2 10s each, with 13s costs, and Ray Lett, whose shop was in the same locality, and who fell for the same trap, was also fined £2 10s and 13s costs. So fell Sunday traders in the vinicity of the hospital.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 74, 18 June 1927, Page 13
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188CHOCOLATES ON SUNDAY Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 74, 18 June 1927, Page 13
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