NOT SUNDAY TRADING
CARTING STOCK ON LOBBIES. MODERN WAY OF DROVING. Maatarton, Dae. 18. Reserved judgment on an important point affecting farmers and freezing companies was given by Mr J. Miller, S.M., in the Mastcrtou Magistrate's Court to-day. The case was one in which Reginald Chapman, Leslie Chapman, and Alexander Johnston, motor-lorry drivers, were charged wth Bunday trading. Defendants were engaged by Wairarapu farmers to convey fat lambs to to Waingawa freezing works, and in other districts in the Dominion, they carried out the work ou Sundays, in order to have the supplies ready for tho butchers ’ board by 8 a.m. on Monday mornings. It is understood that this is the first cane of its kind in New Zealand, and the information was laid in order to test the position. The Magistrate dismissed the information, under one of the exemptions to the Police Offences Act, which provides that nothing in the provisions of tho Act shall apply to the driving of live stock, upholding the submission of tho defence, that droving includes the modern method of conveying, ni’.mcb*. bv motor It—.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 19, 19 December 1930, Page 6
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181NOT SUNDAY TRADING Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 19, 19 December 1930, Page 6
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