ALTERED FIGURES ON PETROL COUPONS
MAN CHARGED AT BLENHEIM FINE OF £6 IMPOSED Blenheim, This Da\ A straight out fraud, very near forgery, was the description applied b; i l he police prosecutor to the action o Stanley Leonard Schroder, a labourer who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate' j Court to purchasing four gallons o petrol and seeking to make such pur ; chase by means not in accord with th. I regulations. The police stated that defendan adopted a scheme for altering and de (facing figures on coupons. He effecte< (one purchase but a service statior (proprietor detected the ruse before th< (next purchase was attempted. "Yoi 1 committed a very serious offence in deed. You are lucky not to be chargee with something more serious.” com mented Mr T. E. Maui. ell. S.M. in im posing a fine of £6.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 7 August 1941, Page 5
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