SHOE FIRM CHARGED
INFORMATION DISMISSED OBJECTS OF THE ACT Press Association. WELLINGTON, Wednesday. In a reserved judgment given in the Magistrate’s Court in the case against Thomas Perry and Son, Limited, of Christchurch, on a charge of having sold shoes, the soles of which were not wholly of leather, without having a statement of the materials clearly stamped on each one, Mr. E. Page, S.M., dismissed the information. The Statute was designed to prevent material having the appearance of leather being passed off as leather, said the magistrate, but there were many substitutes other than leather in an “ail leather” shoe. It could not be suggested that the presence of the glue with which thin slips were stuck together rendered stamping necessary. Security for appeal was fixed at £lO 10s. ;
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 150, 15 September 1927, Page 13
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130SHOE FIRM CHARGED Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 150, 15 September 1927, Page 13
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