MONEY SENT TO AUSTRALIA
MAN FINED UNDER FINANCE REGULATIONS (press association telegram.) INVERCARGILL. August 27. The first case of its kind in Southland was heard before Mr R. Abernethy, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court when William Francis Keane was charged under the Finance Emergency Regulations with unlawfully sending money out of the country. The police stated that the defendant had sent a postal note for 5s and 6d for an Australian consultation. This was returned to him by the censor, but then he sent the same note to a friend in Melbourne. Unluckily, Keane’s letter was opened by the Australian censor, and the postal note was found. Replying to the Magistrate,- Keane said that he did not realise that he was committing an offence. The Magistrate pointed out that the maximum penalty for an offence under the regulations was a fine of £2OO or a year’s imprisonment. If many such cases of this nature come into the Court he would have no hesitation in inflicting a severe fine and even imprisonment. Keane was convicted and fined ±,2.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23110, 28 August 1940, Page 12
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