HELD TO BE ILLEGAL
Use of Horse Float on Sunday NOT A GENERAL RULE By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, December 13. A case of some interest in racing circles was decided in the Police Court . to-day, when Mr. J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., convicted Alfred Randle Hucklebridge of working at his calling on Sunday, November 12, in conveying racehorses in .his float from Christchurch to Wingatui. The defence was that the work was necessary. Part of the defence evidence was that, the Railways Department ran special trains on Sundays for the conveyance of racehorses, and the magistrate remarked that this evidence of rail traffic was rather against the defendant’s case. In convicting, the magistrate said that he was not laying down a general rule regarding the use of floats on Sundays, for there were cases in the country where such transportation appeared to be necessary., The only thing involved in the present instance, however, was the expense of keeping horses in Christchurch over the Sunday.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 69, 14 December 1933, Page 11
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