SECRETARY FINED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 371, 4 November 1932, Page 7

SECRETARY FINED

tailwaggers club UNAUTHORISED COLLECTION j TAKEN UP IN STREET. | I i i BREACH OF BY-LAWS. Christchurch, Saturday. When Percival Wingrove, Dominion Secretary of the Tailwaggers Club of New Zealand, appeared in the streets of Christchurch recently, - -with his ; Alsatian dog Prince, and toolc up a j collection, he did so without the per- 1 mission of' the' City Council, and for j the offence li'e was fined hy Mr. E. D. j s Mosley, S.M., in jthe Magistrate's j Court to-day. - ' Wingrove was charged with taking up a collection in Cath'edral Square without the express permission of the Mayor or council, and taking up the collection in a box not authorised and appfoved. The charge was laid under . Sectiori 164 of By-law 15, 'and Win- J grove pleaded not guilty. • j He was xepresented hy Mr:.' J. B. j Corbett. ' I Leslie Hardie, Chief City Inspector, ! said that between 8.45 and 9.10 p.m. j on October 19, defendant took up a j coHectio'n in Cathedral Square with the aid of a dog. In doing so he committed a hreach of By-law 15, section 164, for applieations made by him on October 4 and October 10 had been refused. Defendant did not speak to any passers-hy, but the dog lay on the ground and people dropped pennies into the box on its back. The application was refused by the council on the ground that the public had been called upon on so manyoccasions to support worthy objects that this collection could quite well he done without. . To counsel, Mr. Hardie said the dog was not a nuisance and lay quietly on the ground. Mr. Corbett submitted that no breaeh had been committed. Defendant was organising secretary to the Tailwaggers' Cluh and he had travelled( to various centres with his dog Prince, 'the idea being that the dog should appear in the street, and that dog-lovers and others symp'athetically inclined towards the work of the cluh should contribute funds towards the expenses of the club. The people had not been asked to contribute. In all other centres Wingrove was eourteously treated hy the authorities, and Christchurch was the only place in which his application was refused. The magistrate held that a definite breach had been committed. Wingrove had taken up a collection through his dog. And, in the opinion of the magistrate, the breach was not a very desirable one in the present circumstances. Applieations to take up collections on behalf of many othsr worthy causes had been refused. • Many applieations had been granted and a great deal of money had been given to those causes from the public purse. The city authorities must control their own streets. They controlled them strictly and were right in doing so. For any man to come here from i anywhere and take up a collection with his dog must not, and would not be allowed. These things should not be allowed without due accounting. "He will make a contribution * now instead of the public," said the magistrate, and imposed a fine of £2 and costs.