CROWN REAPS BENZINE HARVEST
BIG CONSIGNMENT FORFEITED FROM UNLICENSED STORE. Per Press Association. W ELLINGTON, February 26. Over one thousand cases of benzine were forfeited to the Crown to-day when the Combined Buyers, Ltd., pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to a charge of permitting benzine to be stored in an unlicensed building at Napier. Mr \Y atson, who appeared for defendants, said that they only recently entered the benzine trade, but such was the growth of their business that they were obliged to make a contract with a contractor to store the benzine at Hastings in a licensed store. This had not been done, and the company had to accept the responsibility. The contractor’s failure to carry out the arrangements was only a technical offence. Grave loss followed a conviction under the Act, because the benzine was automatically forfeited.
The Magistrate, Mr Page, S.M., agreed that the offence was purely technical, and in view of the forfeiture of 1017 cases of benzine, convicted the company and ordered the payment of Court costs only.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17781, 26 February 1926, Page 8
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