IN THE COURTS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11768, 15 October 1932, Page 7

IN THE COURTS

TRADING COUPONS FINE OF £o (Press Ausoeiiilion.) WELLINGTON. Oct. 14. Mr E. Page. S.AL. to-day imposed a fine of £5, when he convicted Smiths Pedate Crisps (N.Z.) Ltd-, lor a breach of the Trading Coupons Act. BREACHES OF LICENSING ACT HOTEL KEEPER'S ~LICENSE ENDORSED (Press Association ' WiiANGAREI. Oct. 11. At Kaikohe Court yesterday. Leonard William AlcEelland. licensee of uhe Ohaeawai Hotel, was fined .CIO for selling liquor after hours, arm fined £5 and had his license endorsed for selling liquor Lo young men to take to a dance at -Maori pa. WAIROA AIR SMASH APPEAL COURT CASE DECISION R ESERVED (Press Association.; WELLINGTON. Oct. 11.

In the Appeal Court case of Dominion Air Lines v. Strand, counsel for the respondent, Mr Cleary, subnutted that the grant of a. pilot's Incense was not a matter of right, but Jay ii) (the discretion iff the Air Board, who could refuse a license on any proper ground. The appellant s whole argument was based cm the ground that a medical examination was the onlv tiling standing between Kight and a*B certificate enabling him •to -carry passengers. However, the Director of Air Services considered Kight to be unfit to be a commercial pilot. Kight was suffering from neurasthenia, a form of disability vthicii indicated the absence of nervous stability demanded by the air regulations The fact that the company had been guilty of a distinct breach of "the regulations ill allowing the plane to he ilown bv a pilot not holding a B ’license cast llm onus ot prooi on Hie appellant' company ol proving /that there was no connection between the breach of the regulation and Llkaccidenl. . . . Mr Clearv, eoidinuing, suLimUteil that there 'was a definite coimeelioii or nexus between the breach ol Dm regulations and the accident, because if the regulations had been obsemed, Kight would not have been m charge of the plane. The contract of carriage had been, made on tjie assumption that the aviation regulations had been complied with. There was no u-e that Strand knew that appculhixit had committed a breach of statutory duty iu permitting Kight to fly Hie plane If respondent bad known Eight was debarred from piloting the P ®, would have accepted the position and travelled completely at lus own v slv. After hearing Mr P. B. Looke, counsel for appellant, in «eplj, court reserved its decision. BOOT’MAKERS' -VFAUD AGREEMENT REACHED (Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Oct. Ft. Representatives of employers and workers in the bootmakmg > ndustiy came t'o an agreement in the Ooncu hftion CounciWto-day. There will be preference for unionists. Ihe'eßevision for the payment of overtime and a disputes and advisory eonin ttee comprising two representatives from each side, with an e^_ chairman to he appointed m ~ v, duaitrial centre to whom disputeo o.rising out of the award must be ie ferred before going to com i.

THEFTS FROM SEASIDE CUBS SENTENCE ON YOUTH' DEFERRED (Press Association.', DUNEDIN, Oct. .14. Ten charges' of breaking and entering and theft, and five a r v t-iieft, were admitted by --L iaimis d/ Brazil), 18, in the Magistrate s °Tmajoritv of the-offences were committed at cribs at the seaside. The accused, . vvho pleaded > -was convicted on the suminairy chain es, sentence Being deferred until al- ■ ter he. had heeii dealt- wjfcli by the Supreme Court’.