FLYING FOR HIRE.
WAN'GANUI PROSECUTION.
MEANING OF "CARRIAGE."
MAGISTRATE HOLDS VIEWS
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
WAN'GANUI, this day,
Captain Harold Blake was charged in the Magistrate's Court to-day with plyin", for hire with an aeroplane on Sunday. Mr. L. Cohen, who appeared for defendant, contended that "aeroplane" came within the meaning of the word "carriage," the same as "train, tram, bus, taxi, wheelbarrow, pram or bicycle." There was no difference between carriage in a 'plane and any other form of carriage. The Court shouldhold that an aeroplane was a carriage and therefore would be doing nonviolence to the purpose of the statute or the intention of the Legislature.
Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., remarked that if a person's susceptibility wae not hurt by the hiring of pleasure boats or taxis on Sunday, they should not be hurt by the flying of an aeroplane for hire. Reserving his decision, the magistrate informed counsel.that he had held certain views of the matter for some time past which, coincided with those of counsel, and ho would probably support 'those views.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 157, 6 July 1931, Page 8
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