AIR STATION INCIDENT
SEQUEL IN POLICE COURT
[bt telegraph —PRESS association] CEtRISTCHURCH, Monday
In the Police Court to-day, Clarence Reginald Burt, aged 32, was charged with being-unlawfully on the Wigram air station. Last Tuesday Burt knocked on a pilot's bedroom door at the station and said he bad boon instructed to report for training. When accommodation was arranged the deception was discovered. Burt had no connection with Wigram. but was taking an educational course sponsored by the Air Department. X
"They are not taking men with this record?" asked the magistrate, Mr. E. C. Lcvvey, after reading Burt's list. After -warning Burt that he would be sent to gaol if he gave any further trouble, the magistrate convicted a.ud ordered him to come up for sentence in two years if called on.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23769, 24 September 1940, Page 6
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