INVIDIOUS POSITION
GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS
QUOTED
SEQUEL TO PROSECUTION
"We are meeting this sort of thing all over the place," said Mr E. L. Walton, S.M.. when counsel defending a local traffic defendant claimed 1 that his client had been speeding to the train with a last minute order from the Internal Marketing Department of urgently needed vegetables.
"Farmers and others are claiming, " he said, "that they are carrying out some vital order on behalf of the Government, and are making it the excuse for breaking the IaAV. If that is so we have one department which urges the breach and another which prosecutes the. obliging person for. doing so."
The charge concerned Douglas A. Ulph and was brought by the Traffic Department, which that defendant was travelling with his lorry at 38-40 m.p.h. The defence was that lie. was taking an urgently needed load of vegetables to the train in compliance wi-th a request from the Internal Marketing Division. A fine of 40s and costs 12s was imposed.,
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 66, 21 April 1944, Page 5
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168INVIDIOUS POSITION Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 66, 21 April 1944, Page 5
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