UNUSUAL PROSECUTION
MOTOR-CAMP FINED OPERATED WITHOUT LICENCE [ Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Feb. 24. An unusual prosecution was brought in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington to-day when a company known as Raumati Motor Camp, Ltd., was fined £2 and costs for operating a motor camp without a licence. On a charge of laying drains before a permit was obtained, the company was fined £1 and costs. Mr. G. R. Powles, for the Hutt County Council, said it was necessary to obtain a permit to establish a motor camp and a camp could not be operated till the water supply was satisfactory. According to the Health Department, the well from which the defendant company had drawn its water was unhealthy and liable to pollution, but tests were not available and it was not know whether tne water was polluted.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 48, 27 February 1939, Page 7
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137UNUSUAL PROSECUTION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 48, 27 February 1939, Page 7
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