A SERIOUS OFFENCE
Improper Use of Gas “Had you been charged with the (heft of gas, I would have sent you io prison, but under the present charge I am not empowered to do so,” said Mr J. Miller, S.M., in the Napier Magistrate’s Court yesterday when Benjamin Frank Abbott, a labourer, aged 54, pleaded guilty to a charge of laying a pipe to communicate with a pipe of the Napier Gas Company, without the company’s consent, thereby improperly using gas. He was convicted and fined £5, which is to be forfeited to the Napier Gas Company. Senior-Sergeant W. Pender said that the charge was laid under the Napier Gas Company Act, 1875. Abbott, who bached in Fitzroy road, used a pipe connecting up with the gas main, but not connected with a gas meter. He added that the Gas Company always found it extremely difficult to trace gas being used which did not register on any meter. The company was not looking for a severe penalty, but wanted to advertise the seriousness of the offence.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 163, 26 June 1935, Page 3
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176A SERIOUS OFFENCE Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 163, 26 June 1935, Page 3
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