THE LAW IS A "MASS."
A CASK THAT FATLEI). By Telegraph -I'rcfw Association. ■Wellington. Yesterday. The Inspector of Awards proceeded against live Chinese fruiterers in the MagM rale's Court to-day for failing lo close their shops in accordance with the gazetted rei|uisitioii lixing the hours of shops selling tobacco. When the cases were called, counsel for the Department said he had advised the Department that the defendants had not committed an oll'ence. A mi-take had arisen through the official- reading sub-section •>. seed ion !■<. of the Shops and Mlliccs Act in the popular sense, mil knowing that the -cifion ha- already been construed by the <upr>'.':e Court in the conl rar'v »ay. In the present ca-e- the defendants were fruiterers, and it, could not b" .-aid thev were carrying on the par':euiar trad,' of !ohaeeoni-'l ; merely he-c-M-e they -,,1,| tobacco a- a -hie" line. Tbe requisition did not apply to (hem. The informal ion was di.-:ui-scd. with </-> 'J- i. st- again-l the Department.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19111005.2.7
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 89, 5 October 1911, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
162THE LAW IS A "MASS." Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 89, 5 October 1911, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in