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Shops Acts, 1912-1913.—Eight hundred and fifty-seven
visits were made to the occupied shops in the district for the
purpose of observing contraventions of the Acts. In two
cases, legal proceedings were instituted, as under—
(a) Against an occupier for failing to close shop at
8 p.m. on two Sundays. Occupier was fined £1
on each summons and costs.
(b) Against a firm for failing to close two of their
shops oil the usual weekly half-holiday. A fine
of 10s. and eosts in each case was inflicted.
Towards the end of November, the Home Secretary made
an Order suspending the operation of the General Early
Closing Order from 18th to 24th December, 1925, inclusive.
As is usual, this did not relieve occupiers of the obligation
to comply with the weekly half-holiday order in force in the
district, and, as a result, numerous questions as to the position
of local shop-keepers were dealt with by the Department,
Observations were kept throughout the district in the week
preceding the Christmas week, when a number of contraventions
were noted, details of which were reported to the Local
Authority early in 1926.
Slaughter Houses and Food Inspection.—The number of
registered slaughter-houses remains the same as last year, viz.,
six. Three of these, however, have not been used for some
considerable time, and one other has been converted into a
motor garage.
Thirty-one inspections have been made during the year,
whilst slaughtering was in progress, and as far as possible
all animals killed in the town have been examined prior to
being exposed for sale.
In addition, 257 visits have been made to shops of
butchers, fishmongers and fruiterers, and other places where
food is prepared or exposed for sale, and the following were
surrendered and destroyed as trade refuse, being unfit for
human food:—
Apples 280 lbs.
Cod 5 stone.
Haddocks 1 box.
Roes 2 stone.
Oranges 12 cases.
Shrimps 1 flat.
Tomatoes 7 bundles
& 481bs.
Winkles 2 bags.
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