OWNERSHIP OF TARPAULIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1919, Page 3

OWNERSHIP OF TARPAULIN.

DOYLE CONVICTED AND FINED. The hearing of the charge against Samuel Edward Doyle, of removing goods (to wit, a tarpaulin) from the New Plymouth wharf without the permission of the Customs officials, was concluded before Mr A. Crooke, S.M., yesterday morning. The Collector of Customs (Mr R. D. B. Eyre) produced the notice of the gazetting of the wharf at New Plymouth as a landing place under the Customs Act. The Magistrate said he would have to enter a conviction, and the minimum fine under the Act ( £25) would be imposed. If he had power he would reduce the fine, but that could only be done by application to the Governor Costs amounting to £1 13s were allowed, and an order made for the forfeiture of the tarpaulin. Charles Clifton Lister, sadler, New Plymouth, to whom Doyle had sold the tarpaulin, was then charged with having uncustomed goods in his possession. After hearing the evidence, the Magistrate said he was satisfied that at "the time he purchased it Lister had every ground for believing that the tarpaulin was second-hand, and the case was therefore dismissed. 'the (arpuulin now becomes file property of the Customs Department.