ILLEGAL PHOTOGRAPHS
aircraftsman fined [by TELEGRArH FRESS ASSOCIATION] BLENHEIM, Wednesday Photographs in his possession of damaged aircraft and tho Woodbourne Aerodrome led to the appearance in the Blenheim Police Court of Edwin Victor Johnson, an aircraftsman at the Woodbourne air station, on charges under the Emergency Regulations Act. Tho defendant pleaded guilty to photographing damaged aircraft without permission, but not guilty to taking photographs of the aerodrome. He also pleaded guilty to using an assumed name when taking films to be developed. On the first charge he was fined £3, on the third he was ordered to pay costs, while the charge of photographing the aerodrome was dismissed. The police stated that the defendant, when on leave, took films to a chemist in Westport to be developed. The films proved to bo those of damaged aircraft and the Woodbourne Aerodrome. The chemist communicated with the police, asking what he should do.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23687, 20 June 1940, Page 8
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