DISMISSAL OF MAGISTRATE
COMMENT ON CASE ABOUT PETROL LONDON, February 25. A magistrate who said that the Government could “sack him” if it liked, has been sacked. He is Colonel Delme Davies-Evans, chairman of the Llandilo (Carmarthenshire) magistrates. The Lord Chancellor's office has announced that the Lord Chancellor has directed that the colonel’s name should be removed from the Commission of the Peace. Colonel Davies-Evans fined a motorist one shilling for having commercial petrol in his private car, and said: “The Bench dislikes the wording of this act. intensely. We do not call it British. If they would like to sack me they can do so.”
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25740, 28 February 1949, Page 3
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