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DAMAGED 'PLANES.

PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN. AIRCRAFTSMAN FINED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, Wednesday. Photographs in his possession of damaged aircraft and the Woodbourne Aerodrome led to the appearance in the Blenheim Police Court of Edwin Victor Johnson, an aircraftsman at the Woodbourne air station, on charges under the Emergency Regulations Act. * The defendant pleaded guilty to photographng damaged aircraft without permission, but not guilty to taking photographs of

I the aerodrome. He also pleaded guilty to using an assumed name when taking films to be developed. On the first charge he was fined £3. on the third he was ordered to pay costs, while the charge of photographing the aerodrome was dismissed. The police stated, that the defendant, when on leave, took films to a chemist in Westport to be developed. The films proved to be those of damaged aircraft and the Woodbourne aerodrome. Tbo chemist communicated with the polce, asking what he should do.

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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 145, 20 June 1940, Page 20

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DAMAGED 'PLANES. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 145, 20 June 1940, Page 20

DAMAGED 'PLANES. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 145, 20 June 1940, Page 20