SUNDAY FLIGHTS FOR GAIN
_♦ PILOT FINED. ;>asss *ssoa*rtoir ntjisaAX.) KI.THAM. November 5. At the Magistrate's Court this morning Captain M. C. MaeGregor, of Hamilton Air**y», who has done a lot of flving on Sundays in Taranaki lately, was convicted and fined 20s and costs irt», on a charge of working in view of • public place at his calling on BunOctober 2 ft th. His mechanic, Erie Cmirkshank, who was charged with aiding and abetting MaeGregor, was similarly fined. Prior to the date of the offence, the ministers in Eltham entered a protest to tha Mayor against such flights. When the police informed the airman that passenger carrying on Sundays made them liable to prosecution, he replied that he wool* take the consequences.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19769, 6 November 1929, Page 3
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