AN UNUSUAL CASE.
(By Telegraph—Prm Aunnation.)
TIMA-RU, Last Night. Certain auctioneers have been accustomed to conduct auctions of furniture at vendors' residence on the afternoons of the Thursday half holiday. Recently an outside firm brought a| quantity (bf godds here, hired' a hall, and conducted auction sales on several afternoons in succession, including the half holiday. A prosecution for this, as a breach of the Shops and Offices Act was instituted, and heard to-day. Decision wr. ■; reserved. In another case a charge of using obscene language in the porch of a country school, where a dance was being held, was preferred. The question was raised and reserved as to whether a dance comes within the definition of "other entertainments" in the Act, and whether the porch is a part of the hall, within the meaning of the Act.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 15 November 1912, Page 5
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138AN UNUSUAL CASE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 15 November 1912, Page 5
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