“GROSS NEGLECT”
SERVICE STATION OWNER SALES OF BENZINE 4000 GALLS OVER RATION (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Comment on the “gross neglect” by a service station proprietor was made 'by Mr. J. (H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, during the hearing of a case in which Joseph Oliver Billings, a service station owner, was charged with five breaches of the oil fuel regulations.
Billings was fined a total of £55, with £8 12s costs.
The -authorities alleged that tile defendant’s sales during September and October were about 4000 gallons in excess of the legitimate amount. The magistrate said he did not believe there had been a deliberate attempt to disregard the regulations, but there was such gross neglect that he had to treat the offence as serious.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20118, 12 December 1939, Page 10
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