BENZINE FORFEITED.
A COMPANY’S CONVICTION. TECHNICAL OFFENCE. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Over 1030 cases of benzine were forfeited to the Crown to-day when Combined Buyers, Ltd., pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to a charge of permitting benzine to be stored in an unlicensed building at Napier. Air Watson, who appeared for the defendants, said they had only recently entered the benzine trade, but- such was the growth of their business that they were obliged to make a con tract with contractors to store benzine at Hastings in a licensed store. 11 1 is bad l not been done. Tho company had l lo accept tlie responsibility for tiic contractors’ failure to carry out (he requirements of the Act. It was only a technical offence. Grave loss followed a conviction under tho 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 tho company, and ordered payment of Court costs only.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16969, 26 February 1926, Page 9
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