The court Blaxall conviction
A Christchurch city councillor, Peter Norris George Blaxall, was convicted on a charge of illegally importing jewellery, fined $l5O, and ordered to pay solicitor's fees of $lOO in the Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. “The present defendant was not the principal offender. That accolade falls on the import licenceholder (Godfrey Allen, Ltd) and Blaxalf and Steven, Ltd,” said Mr D. B. Pain, S.M., giving judgment in a reserved decision.
It was found that Blaxall, as a principal of Blaxall and Steven, Ltd, had ordered the jewellery —
valued at $2013 — while on a buying trip in Hong Kong In 1977. The jewellery was imported under the terms of a licence granted to a company in the K. F. Meates group, Godfrey Allen, Ltd. Blaxall was “fully aware of the basic arrangements,” for the transfer of the licence from Godfrey Allen, Ltd, to Blaxall and Steven, Ltd, in spite of only doing the ordering of the goods imported, said the Magistrate. Godfrey Allen. Ltd, had no knowledge of the order when it was made and did not require the goods, the Magistrate added. “It was at all times Blaxall
and Steven purchasing goods and bringing them into the country.” The transfer of the licence to Blaxall and Steven was a breach of the conditions imposed when the licence was issued, he said.
Counsel for Blaxall, Mr P. G. S. Penlington, said it had been readily conceded by the chief prosecution witness that this was in the nature of a test case. “There was no financial advantage to She defendant or to his company,” said Mr Penlington. The advantage went to the company paid a premium for the use of the licence, he added.
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Press, 14 April 1979, Page 7
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284The court Blaxall conviction Press, 14 April 1979, Page 7
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