COURTS AND OFFENCES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 March 1928, Page 5

COURTS AND OFFENCES

OF INTEREST TO RADIO DEALERS

fBY TELEGRArH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.I AUCKLAND, March 23. A charge of not having a radio dealer’s license was brought against John Heard Ansell, auctioneer, before Mr W. R. McKean, S.M., at the Police Court to-day. In pleading not guilty for his -client, counsel s-aid that a firm of radio dealers having assigned their estate, the assignee handed to Ansell several sets to dispose of by auction.

“The question is now raised, must, an auctioneer have a radio dealer's license before he can sell soits?” said counsel, “it seems quite simple to me.’’ “But a second-hand dealer can sell anything, can he not?” asked the magistrate. “ thought he could,” answered counsel. Sub-Inspector McCarthy, in handing to the magistrate the regulations d Galina- with the matter as interpreted by the Post and Telegraph Department, said that evidently a license wa s required. Counsel then applied for an adjournment so that he could go into the .matter and put forward argument. He had been instructed only yesterday.

“What I want to hear is some argument by the prosecution,” said flic magistrate. The case was then adjourned.

FOURTEEN DAYS’ IMPRISON

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OPOTIKI, March 23

-Charges of negligent driving and of being intoxicated in charge of a ear were preferred yesterday again-St E. C. Parkinson, the lorry driver who was involved in a fatal motor collision on March 9.

The charge -of negligent driving was dismissed and on that of intoxication ho was sentenced to fourteen days’ ini-pris-onment. A prohibit ion order \\ a.mado and his license cancelled for twelve months.