TRANSPORT OF HORSES.
FLOATS TJSEI> ON SUNDAY
OWNER PEOSECUTED.
(By Telegraph.—Press' Association.) |
PALMER STON 2n~, Monday.
Stating that the case was the first of its. kind, Mr. J- Lv Stout, S.M., today fined Samuel Brown, owner of two motor horse-floats used for conveying racehorses, 10/ for working in the public view on a Sunday.
On the Sunday in question Brown left Hastings for Wanganui, and en route he left the vehicles in ' front of the Palnierston North police station for a period. Jockeys were seen entering and leaving the vans. Counsel for the. defence pleaded that defendant came within- the exceptions provided by the Act, which allowed the droving. of >stock on Sunday, but the magistrate • did' "not agree that transportation could be considered droving.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 195, 19 August 1930, Page 12
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