SHOPKEEPERS IN COURT, Evening Post, 8 November 1928, Page 23

SHOPKEEPERS IN COURT^[1][]

In the Lower Hutt Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., the Inspector of Factories (Mr. W. J. Mountjoy) proceeded against several shopkeepers for breaches of the Shops and Offices Act and of the tobacconists' regulations.

Mrs. K. Neville, Quin Wah, G. Guy, Miss. M. Summers, W. A. McKenzie, J. Mills, and J. Alexander, and Miss. V. Towers were fined £1 each for failing to close at 8 p.m., as required by the tobacconists' regulations and for failing to observe the statutory half-holiday, were convicted and ordered to pay costs, 10s.

A fine of £1 was imposed on George Blake who did not observe the statutory half-holiday.

E. Prier, who failed to close at 8 p.m., in accordance with the tobacconists' regulations, and who, on another occasion, failed to close at 9.30 p.m., was fined £2 on each charge.

Kate Hamilton was fined £1 for failing to close at 8 p.m., in accordance with the shop assistants' award.

↑ “Shopkeepers in Court,” Evening Post, November 8, 1928, Volume CVI, Issue 101 edition, accessed October 29, 2021, https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19281108.2.164.