FALSE PETROL COUPONS
COMPOSITOR IN COURT [BY TULKGHAPII —PRESS ASSOCIATION'] WELLINGTON, Friday Stated to have printed two coupons resembling official petrol coupons and used them to obtain petrol, Bernard Ellis Williams, aged 25, a compositor, pleaded, guilty 1 and /was fined £2 on each of two charges. A charge of forging ft coupon was dismissed, tho police offering no cvidcnco. Tho magistrate, Mr. J. L. Stout, issued a warning that, now the matter had been ventilated, other offenders appearing before him need not expect such lenient treatment. Williams, who is employed by a city printing firm, was stated to have said he got occasional use of a car owned by his mother. As he was not a registered owner he, was unable to get coupons. He had printed only two and had then realised his foolishness and had destroyed the type and crown.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23489, 28 October 1939, Page 12
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143FALSE PETROL COUPONS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23489, 28 October 1939, Page 12
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