BREACHES OF SHOPS ACT
Per Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Fook Lee and Co. and You Lee pleaded guilty to charges of selling and delivering cigarettes and tobacco after 8 p.m. oil December 3rd and 6th respectively. The informations were laid under the Shops and Oliices Act Amendment Act, 1!H)7, prohibiting shopkeepers from selling tobacco after the hours at which tobacconists are required to close their shops. Defendants had been warned by the Department's inspectors of the new legislation, but had persisted in selling the goods. His Worship took into consideration the fact that the lew was a recent one, and that these were probably the first proceedings under it, and penalised each defendant with a line of 20s and costs. In the ease of Fook Lee ai}4 Co. the costs amounted to Qs 3d, and in You Lee's casp to ]2s 3d. His Worship remarked that in future cases j he would not bo so lenient.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 19 December 1907, Page 2
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157BREACHES OF SHOPS ACT Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 19 December 1907, Page 2
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