LETTER IN GERMAN
SENT THE WRONG WAY
Martin Francis Rings, a Harbour Board employee, appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today and pleaded guilty to sending, otherwise than through the post, a letter addressed to a woman in Mangaroa, the letter being of such a nature that, in the ordinary course of correspondence it would be transmitted through the Post Office. De-tective-Sergeant W. McLennan said that the defendant was proficient in the German language, and was friendly with an enemy alien and his wife. He wanted to write to these people, saying that he would be coming out to visit them during the weekend, and he wrote a letter in German and gave it to a carrier to take instead of sending it through the post. He did not intend to do any harm. Rings was convicted and ordered to pay costs.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 113, 8 November 1940, Page 9
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