GREAT WAR SOUVENIR
CLAIM FOR REVOLVER. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, April 17. The return of a revolver (which had been confiscated) to a. man who had had it since the Great War. was tested before Mr. Levvey, S.M.. in the Magistrate’s Court, this morning, when Peter Allan Dunn brought a complaint against the Superintendent of Police, for the return of a revolver, in accordance with the Arms Act. After hearing evidence, the S.M. said that there was an obvious omission in the Act. He did not think he had power to consider the application, and was certain that he had no power to grant it. Dunn would have to petition the Crown, he added, in dismissing the information. Counsel said that Dunn valued the weapon for its sentimental value, and wanted it as a souvenir. The weapon had been stolen, and. when the thieves appeared in Court, it had been confiscated.
Dunn had had the revolver since the war, said Chief-Detective Dunlop, but it had never been registered. It was in good working order, and permits were rarely granted for its type. In any case, when the confiscation order was made, the firearm came into the possession of the Crown, and not the police.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 April 1939, Page 5
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