DOGS IMPORTED BY AIR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 151, 29 June 1932, Page 9

DOGS IMPORTED BY AIR

PILOT FINED £125. A summons, stated to be the first of the kind in Britain, alleging that he “aided, and abetted the lauding of two dogs from France,” wn> heard at lonbridge lately against Brian Russell, aged 27, au air pilot. The case for the Ministry of .Agriculture was that Russell was engaged by au American. Walter Morosco, to fly to Calais, ami on the return journey they took ou board two dogs. They made a forced, landing through bad weather at Capel, Kent, and the dogs were taken by Morosco to a farm and locked in a barn for the night. When the men were questioned by a constable they said they had been for a flight round Kent. The next day Morosco took the dogs away in a taxiDefending counsel said that. Russell returned to England from abroad last year and did not know of the quarantine regulation. Russell pleaded guilty to making a false declaration on landing. He was fined £25, or two months’ imprisonment, on the first summons, ami £lOO, or throe months’ imprisonment, on the second and ordered to pay £4 10s costs. Morosco, who was staled to be eon nected with the film industry and to be in America, was summoned for hi tiding tho dogs. The case against him was adjourned for three months.