Sheriff• rejects weekly instalments
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• A Fife haulage contractor's offer to pt a fine at the rate of £40 a week was reject( at a means court at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Cou last week — and he was sent to prison fi one year.
The outstanding fine was one of £15,0( imposed in March for a Customs ar Excise offence. When Mr Haig Hutches° of Boreland Road, Dysart, put forward h offer of instalments to Sheriff John Alla Mr E. G Smith, for the Custon Commissioners, pointed out that this wou mean the fine would not be paid until tl end of 1979.
In March, Mr Hutcheson admitted sail to Mr Thomas Muir, of Oswald Ro Kirkcaldy, 38,000 gallons of heavy oil having reason to believe they would be UR contrary to the Customs and Excise act.
An agent for Hutcheson stressed that could not offer more than £40 a week i payment. Sheriff Allan rejected the offi and jailed Hutcheson for one year.