LIGHT NEAR PETROL
MOTORIST FINED
PROSECUTED AS. WARNING
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
PALMEKSTON N., This Day
A youth, Allen Bull, was charged at the Magistrate's Court with bringing an acetylene lamp within ten feet of the fuel tank of a motor vehicle while such tank was being filled with petrol. The Inspector of Explosives stated tha-o the deitmdant exiled at a petrol station to secure benzine. The tank, overflowed and the benzine became vapourised in the hot engine and a fire occurred. The prosecution was brought by the Department as a warning to.the public.
His Worship said that there appeared to be a very real danger, which was intensified when they realised how many filling stations there' were in the crowded portions of towns, r
The defendant was fined £1 and costs.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 19 May 1930, Page 13
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131LIGHT NEAR PETROL Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 19 May 1930, Page 13
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