SOUVENIR PISTOL NOT REGISTERED
* RETURNED SOLDIER CHARGED (P-A.) NEW PLYMOUTH. Dee. 13. Hospitality offered to an escaped mental patient from Porirua by a Tikorangi returned soldier, Wilfred Percy Cole, led to a charge being made against Cole in the Waitara Magistrate’s Court this morning for being in possession of an unregistered pistol, a war souvenir. This pistol, the police said, Cole brought 'back from Italy.
On October 28 Cole found a cripple in a roadside shed, and let him stay at ms home. Later the guest was found by the police In Inglewopd, armed with a pistol and a butcher’s knife. Cole admitted having the pistol, which the mental patient had stolen. The police said the charge had been rnade against Cole as a warning to any returned men who had firearms as souvemrs. No penalty was asked for. If souvenir pistols were not registered they must be handed in.
The Magistrate convicted and discharged Cole and ordered confiscation of the pistol.
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24749, 14 December 1945, Page 3
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