A TECHNICAL OFFENCE
Br Telegraph.—Preis Association. Gisborne, June 18.
Captain Holm, master of the schooner Manoro, was charged at. the Magistrate’s Court to-day by the Collector of Customs. tinder the Restriction of Alien Immigration Act, with berthing a vessel inbound from Australia without a permit from the Customs. The evidence, of the harbourmaster and several sliipmastprs wns to the effect that in view of the threatening weather conditions, the captain acted most wisely in entering the port when he did. The Magistrate held that: under the circumstances Captain Holm was justified. It was a technical offence. A conviction was entered, but no fine imposed.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 227, 20 June 1921, Page 6
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104A TECHNICAL OFFENCE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 227, 20 June 1921, Page 6
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