BUTCHER FINED £ls
RATIONING BREACHES (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 7. Lancelot Ural Higgs, butcher, was fined a total of £ls on two charges of breaches of the rationing regulations when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Higgs was charged that between June 30, 1945, and January 3, 1946, he failed to declare on his trades authority to acquire 13,9661 b. of rationed meat and that between the same dates he acquired that quantity of meat from a wholesale meat company and others under circumstances in which the wholesale meat company and others were prohibited from supplying the meat under the emergency regulations. Higgs pleaded guilty to both charges. Detective-Sergeant A. A. Herron said that Higgs had obtained the meat by submitting untrue returns of his purchases. In view of the amount involved, the food controller considered it a serious case.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21964, 7 March 1946, Page 9
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