PETROL STORED
ELEVEN PROSECUTIONS DANGEROUS GOODS ACT QUANTITIES UP TO 1440 GALLONS (By Telegraph.—press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday Defendants had apparently become nervous over the petrol restrictions and had kept over eight and a-half gallons without having a licence to do so, said the Chief City Inspector, Mr Huggins, in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, when eleven prosecutions for storing dangerous goods contrary to the provisions of the Dangerous Goods Act were heard. “You are not charged under the new regulations with hoarding petrol, that is why I am being lenient,” said the magistrate to one of the defendants. “If "you had been hoarding I would have regarded it much more seriously.” Except in one case where the costs were heavy, defendants were each fined 20s and costs. The quantities involved ranged from 44 gallons to 1440 gallons.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20914, 20 September 1939, Page 9
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137PETROL STORED Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20914, 20 September 1939, Page 9
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