BUILDING MATERIALS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 25, 24 October 1942, Page 8

BUILDING MATERIALS

Breaches Of Regulations Alleged (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, October 23. Charges involving alleged breaches ot the regulations, governing the control ot building materials, the first to be instituted in the Dominion, were preferred the Magistrates’ Court nt New Plymouth today against Ernest Colin Hayton, of New Plymouth, plumbers’ merchant, anil Metal Workers Ltd., of New Plymouth, metal goods manufacturers, in winch Havton is also a shareholder. Sixteen charges against Hayton were all of a similar nature and alleged that, being the' owner, according to the regulations, of certain quantities of plain U ' K * corrugated iron, which came within the restriction of the regulations, he did in parting with same fail unlawfully to comply with the directions given under the Supply Control Emergency Regulations, 1939. The transactions connected with the alleged disposal'of the goods were spread over a period from April -it to July 31, 1942. Two charges against Metal Workers. Ltd., alleged that on July 17, 1942, at New Plymouth, they did, with intent to deceive,‘make false statements in a written communication with Douglas S-naw, an emergency controller. lhe hearing was continued tonight and is expected to last some days. Twenty-four witnesses are to be heard.