FISHERMAN FINED
WARNING SHELL COST SIGNALS IGNORED (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. i As a sequel to an incident last Friday, when a shot was fired from the battery at North Shore across the bows of a fishing boat returning to port because it did not respond to signals to come alongside the naval vessel and report, the owner of the boat, Mr D. FI. Whitelaw, has been called on to pay the cost of the shot, £2 13s Gd Fie said the police came to his boat and said he had to report to the naval base. On going there, he was informed he had to pay the cost of the shot. He replied that he did not have the money and was told a i bill would be sent.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20067, 13 October 1939, Page 8
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