BENZINE FOR THE CROWN.
THOUSAND CASES FORFEITED
STORED IN UNLICENSED BUILDING. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. Feb. 26. Over a thousand cases of benzine were forfeited to the Crown to-day, when Combined Buyers, Ltd., pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court on a of permitting benzine to be '-stored in an unlicensed building at Napier. Mr. Watson, appearing for the defendants, said they only recently entered the benzine trade, but such was the growth of their business that they were obliged to make a contract with a contractor to store benzine at Hastings in a. licensed store. This had not been done, and the company bad to accept the responsibility of the eon„ tractor’s failure to .carry out the arrangement. It was only a technical offence Grave loss followed a conviction under the Act, because the benzine was automatically forfeited. The Magistrate (Mr. Page) agreed that the offence was purely technical, and, in view of the forfeiture of 1017 cases of benzine, convicted the company and ordered the payment of court costs only.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 26 February 1926, Page 7
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