TWO BREACHES OF REGULATIONS

Southland Times, Issue 24650, 23 January 1942, Page 3

TWO BREACHES OF REGULATIONS

SAWMILLERS FINED Reserved judgment was delivered yesterday by Mr R. C. Abernethy, S.M., in the case in which Andrew Sharpe, Ltd., saw millers, Tawanui, were charged with three breaches of the Southland and Otago Beech Marketing Notice 1940. The three charges dealt with the sale of silver beech to Cocks and Son, Riccarton, on June 11, to C. H. Bowater, Christchurch, on October 9, and to Bunting and Co., Ltd., Christchurch, on September 24. Mr H. J. Macalister appeared for the conservator of forests and Messrs F. B. Adams and W. S. Armitage, of Dunedin, for the defendant company.

The defendant admitted the facts in the three cases, but denied that they constituted breaches of the Southland and Otago Silver Beech Marketing Notice 1940. Mr Adams argued that the relevant provisions of the marketing notice were invalid. The Magistrate dealt at length with the evidence and the arguments submitted by the defendant. He said that the attitude of the defendant had been that he did not wish to comply with the regulations on the grounds of selfinterest.

The. charge concerning Cocks and Sons was dismissed, but convictions were entered on the other two charges with a penalty of £6, court costs 12/and solicitors’ fee £6/6/- in each case.