“WHOLESALE MISUSE”
MOTOR REGISTRATION NUMBERS GARAGE OWNER PUNISHED Press Association DUNEDIN, Monday. “This garage proprietor has been indulging- in a wholesale misuse of numbers,” said Senior-Sergeant Quartermain 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 identifiable. Defendant was fined £5, and 10s costs on each charge of having affixed the wrong numbers, and ordered to pay costs, 10s, on the other information. „ Emmett 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 10s costs on the first charge, and 10s and 10s costs on the second.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 12, 5 April 1927, Page 4
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