AIRWAYS PILOT CHARGED
WORK AT TRADE ON SUNDAY
CONVICTION WITHOUT PENALTY;
DUNEDIN TEST CASE DECIDED.
By Telegraph-—Press Association. < Dunedin, Last Night. y,..■■■. Adest-case-of interest to flying clubs and c(/apanies throughout the Dominion was heard in the Police Court to-day, when Captain White, pilot of New Zea ; land Airways, was charged with working, at his calling on Sunday. It was : contended by the defence the aeroplanes were exempt from the operation of the . -.Act; as they dame, under the, definition of “any carriage "or cab.” The magistrate differed from this view and held that as the Act was passed as recently as 1927 aeroplanes would have been especially exempted if the Legislature had intended that they should be. A conviction without penalty was entered, the magistrate agreeing to state a case for appeal.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1930, Page 9
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