ILLEGAL SUGAR.
WEEK'S RATION FOR 140. ROLLS-ROYCE TRANSPORT. Mrs. Yvonne Reekie, whose addreswai {riven Ivy Cottage. Water Lane Borinjrton. Hert-. was lined £To at Watford after the police said that a hundredweight of stijrar had been taken from a \V at ford shop to her Rolls-Rovee.
She was fined £-.0 for oMaininjr more than lior ralioned amount of supir. and f<>: ohtaininsr it without it.!ii>o,,s. i>he was ordered to pay £1.", posts.
Mr. Eric Temple, i>rosoc»itin ? . said t-ho sugar was the ration for 140 people for a week.
On Saturday. February 24, he eaid Stwe. Emily Stanboroiifrh". a,, employee 01 the Food Control Committee, saw i.he Rolls-Royce drive up to Kavs shop in Hlgrh Street. Watford. A c-haufTour left the chop earrvin" a larpe cardltoard container. ]klr~ Reekie aUn fame out of ;i,e shop, and drove away in the car. When she «;,* i<v .,, l, v , <mkl ..trials she s:,,d: "I admit the whole thin- I paid Kay s inana?e, two juineas. 1 did no; pvt a re<-eipt." Summonses John Kav lid of Owper Street., E_C for siipplvins Rwiie.-.gi.n «rtm "ateS wwtppJyinjrfMr-i IT. bliirlev adjourned forafortmght.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 93, 19 April 1940, Page 6
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185ILLEGAL SUGAR. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 93, 19 April 1940, Page 6
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