HORSES BY FLOAT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 129, 2 June 1944, Page 6

HORSES BY FLOAT

TRANSPORT COMPANY FINED

HAMILTON, This Day.

•A series of eight charges involving breaches, of the Oil Fuel Regulations governing the transport of racehorses were' preferred against the De Luxe Horse Transport Company, Limited (Mr. W. J. King) before Mr. S. L. Paterspn, S.M., today. On each charge the'company was fined £10/ The company- admitted the charges.

Mr.-R., J.,'Dixon, of-the Transport Department, Wellington, conducted the prosecution. -He said the charges arose from the order restricting the transport of horses to 30 miles in any one trip. In the present charge the horses had been carried to and from Auckland in April. Mr; King said that arrangements had been made for'the horses to be transported as far as Mercer by river steamer. When-several horses fell on the steel deck of the steamer, however, some.owners decided to remove their horses from the steamen and send them through by float. The company decided to transport the horses. The company had no desire to raise any technical objections to the charges, although they had been made and upheld in other parts of the Dominion. The Magistrate said the question of penalty ■in such cases was a matter of some difficulty. He could not shut his eyes to the fact that the regulations were made to save oil fuel, and were directly connected with the war effort. It was defiance of the authorities. ' RUGBY LEAGUE Players selected for tbe ' Rugby League representative niatch, Hutt Valley v. Wellington, at Newtown Paris on Monday are:—Wei linßion: Backs. Hawe, Parata (Aotea). Dollop. Hudson, ilulford. Chandler (Miramar). Nunns (Waterside). Geal Littler (Central). Plneaha (Hokowhltu-Atu): forwards, McCarther Greenneld, Mlnnoch, . Woods (Miramar). Ellery. Musters. Slia'nahan (Central), Loutaatau (Newton) Napier (Waterside), Carrtngton (Aotea). Smith (Aotea). Hutt Valley Backs Hazlewood JleKeltch, R ; Marti?. Mullander (Korodale), Corliss. Greenstrect (Potone), h. Stewart. Hearno (Army), Miller, Pearee (Kandwlckj; forwards, Moses, Corkln, Hedliers (Randwlc.M, Rlmmer. H Kreyl.. Bolton (Korodale), Martin, Bree.. Aston (Petone)." > HUTT ELECTION RECOUNT No change in personnel from that first announced has been disclosed by the official count of votes in the various Lower Hutt- election contests. Mr. J. W Andrews increased his Mayoral majority from 1523 to 1731, and there have been changes in the various candidates' totals, but the first order of election still stands. Upper Hutt has not yet completed its official count. Only one petition in bankruptcy was filed in Wellington in- the first five months of this year, and. that was in Maxell. -In the corresponding period of last.year,there 'were five petitions, but none of them in May. ' * "