MISLEADING WHARF GUARD.
PROSECUTION TO ACT AS WARNING
A despatch-clerk, named Thomas A. Gavin, employed by E. Porter and Company, was charged before Mr. E. D. Mosley,' S.M., in the Police Court yesterday with assisting a youth employed by the same firm to attempt to mislead the wharf guard, and the boy was charged with attempting to mislead the guard. Mr. Selwyn Mays said the Defence Department had recently issued special passes to firms for-use by their carters only. Gavin gave one of these passes to the boy to enable him to take a parcel to a steamer. When the pass was presented it was confiscated, but the boy. was given an emergency disc, so that he could carry out the firm's business. The case had been brought as a warning that the regulations must be strictly complied with. Gavin was ordered to pay £2 9s costs, and the boy was convicted and discharged.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13967, 28 September 1918, Page 9
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154MISLEADING WHARF GUARD. New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13967, 28 September 1918, Page 9
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