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CHINESE STOREKEEPERS.
DEFENDANTS FINED. I St'i'gt. Bowden, Inspector of Factories, at the Feildiiig Magistrate's Court tins morning, proceeded against tluee local Chinese storekeepers, Chew Lee, Sing Lum Kee, • and Wong Kuni and Co., for selling • groceries after 9 p.m. on Saturday, '. 9th March. A second information charged the Chinese with a similar ort'eiice on lUth March. Mr Carty appeared lor the dci'en, dauts. i Surgt. JSowden, in opening the case, said those phoreket-pers sold fruit and groceries, and he quoted several cases in Wellington to show that by selling groceries after the statutory hour lor closing they committed a ; breach of the Act. ! Sergt. Bowden deposed: 1 visited the defendants' shops on the dates i mentioned in the information, and fomid they had large stocks of groceries, and also fruit; it was, about o when 1 visited these shops, and i saw people there buying groceries; ' the shops were lit up, and the front door open. 3.v Mr Carty: Sing Lum Kee has 'a large shop window, mostly stock! Ed with fruit; 1 have seen customers iv these Chinese shops; they all carry large stocks of groceries Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 220, 20 March 1907, Page 2
DEFENDANTS FINED. I St'i'gt. Bowden, Inspector of Factories, at the Feildiiig Magistrate's Court tins morning, proceeded against tluee local Chinese storekeepers, Chew Lee, Sing Lum Kee, • and Wong Kuni and Co., for selling • groceries after 9 p.m. on Saturday, '. 9th March. A second information charged the Chinese with a similar ort'eiice on lUth March. Mr Carty appeared lor the dci'en, dauts. i Surgt. JSowden, in opening the case, said those phoreket-pers sold fruit and groceries, and he quoted several cases in Wellington to show that by selling groceries after the statutory hour lor closing they committed a ; breach of the Act. ! Sergt. Bowden deposed: 1 visited the defendants' shops on the dates i mentioned in the information, and fomid they had large stocks of groceries, and also fruit; it was, about o when 1 visited these shops, and i saw people there buying groceries; ' the shops were lit up, and the front door open. 3.v Mr Carty: Sing Lum Kee has 'a large shop window, mostly stock! Ed with fruit; 1 have seen customers iv these Chinese shops; they all carry large stocks of groceries Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 220, 20 March 1907, Page 2