MUST CEASE.
BORROWING OF WEAPONS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, WednesdayAn unusual exhibit in the Police Court to-day was a shortened pea-rifle which had changed hands several times. _ It related to charges preferred against three men for breaches of the Arms Act. Senior-Sergeant Sweeney said the weapon belonged to a fanner, William Thomas Sanders, and he lent it to Vincent Allen and Ivo John Allen to shoot rabbits. For procuring the weapon without | first obtaining a permit the two Aliens were each ordered to pay costs, and for transferring the weapon to the Aliens without authority Sanders was fined 10/. • Ivo Allen said it was the usual thing on farms to borrow guns to shoot rabbits. The magistrate, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, remarked that it was a practice that should cease. Robert Alexander McKinley was fined 10/ for transferring a pea-rifle to Herbert Alfred James without a permit, and James was fined 10/ for procuring the weapon without a permit.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 15, 19 January 1933, Page 14
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