BOWSER PUMPS.
LEGAL DEFINITION WANTED. IMPORTANT TEST CASE. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, Sept. 16. An important test ease, involving the issue whether filling .stations come under the definition of gaxage, was heard at the Police Court to-day, when bowser proprietors were charged with having sold petrol in view of the public on Sunday. The police contended that bowsers weie not exempted like garages. Mr C-allan. for the defence, urged that thev were garages and supplied a necessary commodity. Evidence was given by Mr Anseli, president of the .South. Island Motor Union, who considered that it was essential that such places should be open Sunday. as closing put serious difficulties in the wav of Sunday motoring. Most motorists now filled from such pumps, and it was a method that avoided waste and leakage. Moreover, service stations provided for many small emergency ti-oubles. . . The magistrate, in reserving his decision, intimated that at present his view was that there was no offence. The police asked the magistrate to decide also whether a bowser on the highway worked 'Ey a storekeeper was a garage.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 September 1927, Page 9
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180BOWSER PUMPS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 September 1927, Page 9
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