Magistrate’s Court SMUGGLING ADMITTED

Press, Volume C, Issue 29702, 21 December 1961, Page 20

Magistrate’s Court SMUGGLING ADMITTED

Watersider Fined £25

On a charge of smuggling a transistor radio at Lyttelton on September 25, Helge Damsgaard Neilson, a waterside worker, was fined £25 by Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Neilson (Mr C. R. Harman) pleaded guilty but did not appear. Prosecuting for the Customs Department, Mr I. C. J. Poulson said Neiison had been seen by a customs officer talking to a Chinese seaman on board the Crusader berthed at Lyttelton. When Neilson came off the ship the officer asked him if he had anything to declare. He admitted having a radio which was taken from him, said Mr Polson. FINED £lO Charged with failing to give way to the right at the intersection of Fitzgerald avenue and Gloucester street on November 24, John Michael Atkins was fined £lO. He pleaded guilty by letter to the offence from which an accident resulted. (Before Mr A. P. Blair, S.M.) DECISION RESERVED The Magistrate reserved his decision after evidence had been heard in an appeal by the Albany Dairy Ltd., against a decision made by the Christchurch Metropolitan Milk Board in August. 1959. refusing the company a licence to sell milk to Princess Margaret Hospital. The board granted the licence to the Christchurch Milk Company. The appeal was begun on Tuesday afternoon and continued ail day yesterday. Mr W. R. Lascelles appeared for the Christchurch Metropolitan Milk Board and Mr A. C. Perry represented the appellant company.