BREACH OF GOODS SERVICE LICENCE
“Carriers’ Position Difficult” (New Zealand Press Association) TIMARU, July 20. “Not many carriers get away without committing an offence of this kind at some stage or another,” said Mr N. M. Izard, S.M., when hearing a case in the Magistrate's Court in Timaru today involving a breach of the terms of a goods service licence. “It’s almost endemic, and something of an occupational hazard. "These cases do present problems,” he said. "I do appreciate the difficulties under which carriers work, but the terms of the act are plain. Carriers know them and they know they must pay the penalty if they commit a breach. “No morality is involved in this type of case. It is a matter of an act being designed to protect the railways. I must observe the statute and do my best to discourage these offences until legislation is brought down winch changes the position.” The Magistate told Mr H. E. Blank, counsel for E. R. Cochrane, Ltd., Ashburton, that the best he could do in this case was to enter a conviction and impose a fine of £l6. The company had pleaded not guilty to a charge of carrying cocksfoot seed from Wakanui to Washdyke, thereby committing a breach of the terms of its goods service licence.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29263, 22 July 1960, Page 10
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