AVIATOR FINED

Southland Times, Issue 25361, 13 August 1935, Page 6

AVIATOR FINED

FLYING WITHOUT LICENSE. FAILURE TO RENEW. (Per United Press Association.) Wanganui, August 12. Maurice King, the well-known Wanganui aviator, was fined £1 on charges of flying'an aeroplane to Wellington from Wanganui and back without a license and also with not being the holder of a pilot’s license. Mr P. Dickson, for the defendant, said he believed it was the first case of its kind in New Zealand but the Magistrate, Mr Salmon, said he had recently had two cases at Otaki. King had held licenses for the two previous years and on those occasions the Defence Department authorities had sent out notices to pilots and forms of applications, but this year it did not do so. King underwent his medical examination and when he made application for his license, subsequent to the Wellington flight, was told that it would not be issued until after the case had been heard. Counsel remarked that it _ almost savoured to some extent of victimization on the part of the authorities and pilots would have made application in proper time. The Magistrate said there was nothing in the regulations requiring notices to be sent, and the onus was on the pilots to renew.