FLYING ON SUNDAY
AIRMAN FINED AT ELTHAM . AFTER CLERGY’S PROTEST Press Association ELTHAM, Today. In the Police Court this morning: Captain M. MacGregor, a well-known airman, of Hamilton Airways, who has done a lot of flying on Sundays in Taranaki lately, was convicted and fined £1 and costs 10s on a charge of working in view of a public place at his calling on Sunday, October 20. His mechanic, Eric Cruickshank, was charged with aiding and abetting Captain MacGregor, and was similarly fined. Before the date of the offence ministers in Eltham entered a protest to the Mayor against such flights. When the police informed the airman that for passenger-carrying on Sunday he was liable to prosecution he replied he would take the consequences.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 812, 5 November 1929, Page 1
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124FLYING ON SUNDAY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 812, 5 November 1929, Page 1
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