CARPENTERS FINED
MANPOWER BREACHES O.C. WAIHI, this day. In the Waihi Police Court before Mr. W. H. Freeman, S.M., two carpenters—Alan Welby Ritchie and William Abram Wallace—for whom Mr. H. L. BroughtOn appeared, pleaded guilty to breaches of the Manpower Regulations. Sergeant A. Bisset prosecuted. Ritchie was charged with leaving his employment without permission and Wallace with employing Ritchie without the permission of the manpower officer. Counsel submitted that the war effort had not suffered one iota by the action of defendants. The magistrate said that the direction of the manpower officer must be observed. He thought the real trouble was that the war had not reached New Zealand. The fact of there being a war was only realised by those who had gone away and suffered. A fine of £10 in ppch case was imposed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 39, 15 February 1945, Page 3
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