MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1922, Page 8

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

NEW PLYMOUTH SITTING. UNREGISTERED PRINTING PRESS. The weekly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at New Plymouth was l.eld yesterday. Air. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., i being on the bench. ! Charges of’being the owner of an mi'registered printing press and with printl ing circulars without having thereon ms ‘ name and usual place of abode were I preferred against Pierre Finch Burrows, , of New Plymouth. Mr. F. E. Wilson, who appeared for , the defendant, first of all set up the technical defence that Burrows was • merely the managing director and prinj cipal shareholder of a registered company, and that the company should have been sued, not Burrows personally. However, he would not press the defence. The facts were admitted, but

ihe firm had commenced business at the beginning of the year, when the machinery was inspected and passed and the factory registered with the inspector of factories. Defendant had not 'been aware that it was necessary to register his printing presses in the Supreme Court, hut he had done so within twenty-four hours of the police drawing his attention to the matter. Regarding the omission of the full imprint, Mr. Wilson said that this was not a case of a secret press, and that the police had apparently known where to go to find the printer of the circulars referred to. Probably the cases had been brought as a notice to other printers. Mr. Mowlem agreed that the case was not a very serious one. The point that was worrying him was that the minimum penalty under the Act was £5 for each <conviction.

The case was allowed to etand down for a few minutes, and on resuming, Detective-Sergeant Cooney, who conducted the ease for the police, intimated that he had been instructed not to withdraw the charges. The Magistrate therefore inflated the minimum penalty I on each charge, with costs. ' NGAMOTU SEASIDE COTTAGE. I An order was made for Bruce Joll to I deliver to the Ngamotn Seaside Resort I Company. Ltd., on or before January 15, possession of a seaside cottage occuI pied by him at Ngamotn.