A NOVEL CASE.
; SMALL FINE IMPOSED. (P*B 8 8 ABSOCIATIOir TEIEORAM.) PALMERSTON N., August 16. - Stating that the case Was the first of its kind, Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., to-day fined Samuel Brown 10s for working in the public view On a Sunday. Brown is the owner of two motorhotse floats used for conveying racehorses, and on the date of the offence left Hastings fot Wanganui. En routb he left the Vehicles in front of the Palmerston North police station, for a period. It was a Sunday, and joclceys were seen entering and leaving the Vans. Counsel for the defence pleaded that defendant Catae within the excep-1 tions of the Act, which allowed the droving of Stock on Sunday, but the Magistrate did not agree that transpor- : tation could be considered droving. !
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20010, 19 August 1930, Page 15
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133A NOVEL CASE. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20010, 19 August 1930, Page 15
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