TWO MEN ON TRIAL
ALLEGED FORGED PETROL COUPONS
P.A. AUCKLAND, October 26. Charged with forging a card of petrol coupons on June 29, with intent that they should be acted on as genuine, Donald Lamon, 31, salesman, and Charles White, 32, farmer, stood trial before Mr. Justice Fair today. They were further charged with conspiring with each other and with other persons unknown at Whangarei to commit the crime of uttering forged petrol coupons. . The Crown Prosecutor," Mr. Meredith, said that on account of the dearth of petrol there was an obvious temptation for somebody to forge coupons, for which a fairly good price could be obtained. New coupons for the following year were issued on July 1. On Thursday, June. 29, DetectiveSergeant Finlay, of Whangarei, learned that the two accused had arrived from Auckland, and his inquiries resulted in a batch of forged coupons being recovered from the office of the Settlers' Hotel, Whangarei, where the two men were staying. Lamon, it was alleged, booked in under an assumed name at room 23, and White booked in under his own name. Evidence would be given that Lamon wrapped up a small parcel and gave it to a hotel porter, asking him to look after it very carefully as it was valuable. This porter handed it to the night porter, from whom Lamon recovered it at 3.30 a.m. About 9.30 on Friday morning a parcel was again deposited at the hotel office. Witnesses.would say that Lamon offered to sell coupons that day to a business man, and that White produced cards of coupons in a hotel bar. When Detective-Sergeant Finlay accused White of having petrol coupons he denied it.
Next morning, said Mr. Meredith, the police recovered a parcel marked "Room 23" from the office, and found it to contain 121 full cards of four-gal-? lon coupons for the year 1944-45. Lamon at first denied v that he had left the parcel at the office, but later said it contained two handkerchiefs and some odds and ends.
The hearing was adjourned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1944, Page 7
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