PLYING FOR HIRE.
LAUNCH-OWNER FINED.
[by telegraph.— ASSOCIATION.]
Dcxedix, Friday. The Stipendiary Magistrate (Mr. Widdowjten) gave judgment this morning in a case in which the owner of a motor launch of Jess than 40ft was charged with carrying passengers within river limits, and with plying witliin river limits en the Otago Harbour without carrying life-saving appliances, as provided by the Shipping and Seamen Act. The launch was not licensed to carry passengers, but there was no evidence that the persons mentioned in the charge were carried for hire.
The magistrate said that the main question was as to the meaning of the word "plying," and upheld the contention of the counsel for the prosecution that " plying" used in the rules under €h& Act must be read in a general sense, and that it mattered not. that the launch made only one trip; The defendant was convicted, but as this was a test case, no penalty was inflicted, defendant being ordered to pay costs only. ■ '.'; " . '■'..■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15056, 27 July 1912, Page 8
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