UNUSUAL CASE
MOTOR CAMP COMPANY FINED
By Telegraph—Press Association
WELLINGTON, February 24. An unusual prosecution was brought in the Magistrate’s Court in Wellington to-day when a company, known as Raumati Motor Camp, Ltd., was fined £2 and costs for operating a motor camp without a licence. On a charge of laying drains before a permit had been obtained, the company was fined £1 and costs. Mr G. R. Fowles, for the Hutt County Council, said that it was necessary to obtain a permit to establish a motor camp, and a camp could not be operated till a water supply was satisfactory. According to the Health Department the well from which the defendant company had drawn its water wsa unhealthy and liable to pollution, but tests were not available, and it was not known whether the water was polluted.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21280, 25 February 1939, Page 21
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138UNUSUAL CASE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21280, 25 February 1939, Page 21
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