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Fish Friers
This business is established at 8 premises. One new shop was
opened during the year. The proprietor co-operated with the
department and a first class restaurant and kitchen were fitted up.
Game Licences
Twenty-five applications were received under Section 27 of
the Local Government Act, 1894, from tradesmen in the Borough
for licences to deal in game. A licence was granted in each instance.
The Shops Acts, 1912-1936
Inspection of shops in the Borough has been carried out
and complaints and contraventions dealt with.
Particulars in regard to the shops on the Register are as
follows:
Number on register at beginning of 1949 866
Number closed 8
New shops 43
No. on register at end of 1949 901
Changes of occupancy 45
Legal Proceedings
Legal proceedings were taken in the following instances:
(1) Fourteen street traders were summonsed for 49 offences
including 22 cases of failure to register as hawkers under
Section 279 of the Middlesex County Council Act and 27
instances of failure to exhibit names and addresses as
required by Section 16 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1938.
Two summonses were dismissed and in the other cases fines
amounting to £20 and costs totalling £1-1-0 were imposed.
(2) (a) An owner was summonsed for failing to abate a nuisance
arising from a defective roof and range. The defendant
asserted that under the terms of the lease of the tenancy
he was not responsible for the maintenance of the premises.
The magistrates dismissed the summons.
(b) An owner was summonsed for failing to abate a nuisance
arising from defective roofs. An order was made to abate
the nuisance within six weeks.
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