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Young Man Who Borrowed Revolver Hearing shots coming from a garage one night recently a constable looked through a window of the premises and saw a number of young men, one of whom had a revolver in his hand. The incident had- n sequel in the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, yesterday, when John Alexander McMillan apiu’.'ired before AH'. E. D. Mosley, S.M., and pleaded guilty to a- charge of procuring possession of a revolver without a permit. Defendant explained that he was in die habit of going rabbit shooting in the country, and when a young friend of his, to whom the revolver belonged, brought it into the garage he borrowed it. He rigged up a target to represent the trunk of a tree and was in the midst of target practice when the constable arrived on the scene. The magistrate imposed a line of 10/- and costs 10/-.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 208, 30 May 1936, Page 7
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