WRONG NUMBERS
“WHOLESALE MISUSE” GARAGE PROPRIETOR FINED UNREGISTERED CAR USED (Per United Press Association.) Dunedin, April 4. “This was a garage proprietor who has been indulging in a wholesale misuse of numbers,” said the Senior Sergeant, when William Lawlor Shiel was charged on two informations with having affixed the wrong numbers to two motor cars and with having permitted an unregistered car to be used in Stafford street.
The Magistrate said the Act provided for a penalty of £2O per day. It was very important that cars should be easily identified. Defendant was fined £5 and 10/- costs on each charge of having affixed wrong numbers and ordered to pay costs (10/-) on the other information.
Emmet Shiel was charged with having affixed the wrong number to a car, and also with having permitted an unregistered car to be used.
Defendant was fined £5 and 10/- costs on the first charge and 10/- and 10/- costs on the second.
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Southland Times, Issue 20146, 5 April 1927, Page 8
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