LYTTELTON NEWS
PERSONAL Shipping, harbour board, railway officials, and other friends met on board the motor-ship Port Lyttelton at Lyttelton yesterday to present Captain G. w. Hearn, master of the vessel, with a fruit bowl of inlaid New Zealand woods. Mr H. A. Rhind, who made the presentation. said it was intended as a memento to Captain Hearn to commemorate the visit to Lyttelton of__the Port Lyttelton ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF REVOLVER WEAPON SOLD BY SCHOOL PUPIL (P.A.) AUCKLAND. July 25. The sale of a revolver by a pupil of the Avondale Technical High School to another pupil was mentioned in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. when John Harvey. a quarryman, pleaded guilty to being illegally in possession of a revolver. Police evidence showed that defendant's 14-year-old son obtained a revolver and ammunition from his parents’ home without their knowledge, and took it to school. He sold it for '*.lo to a 15-year-old pupil. He also received a home-made radio in part-payment. The purchaser had his own banking account, from which he drew £lO. ' For Harvey, it was stated that the revolver was a war souvenir. The defendant was fined £3.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25246, 26 July 1947, Page 10
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189LYTTELTON NEWS Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25246, 26 July 1947, Page 10
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