Tram Floor Is Not A Public Place
WELLINGTON, Feb. 6. The fldor of a tramcar is not a public place in law. 'Upholding counsel's submission to this effect, Mr. A, M. Goulding, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today, dismlssed an unusual charge brought against John Shiiite Saxon, a chemist, of spilling tear gas on the floor of a tramcar. The Magistrate said he did not think • tear " gas could come within ther meaning of "other oifensive substances,'V as defined in section 40 of the Police Offences Act. He said the Department might wish to consider. amending the scope of this seetion of the Act, but under , the present circumstances he would have to dismiss the information.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 February 1948, Page 5
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