MILITARY MEDAL SOLD
BUYER AND SELLER FINED AN UNUSUAL PROSECUTION. (Peb United Press Association.) AUCKLAND,' November 17. It is not generally known that it is an offence punishable by six months’ imprisonment to sell or buy or even receive as a gift a military decoration. In the Police Court to-day proceedings, probably the first of their kind in Auckland, were taken against a retired pawnbroker, Moss Robinson, for unlawfully purchasing a King’s (South African War) medal, and also against a young man, Rupert George Bell, for unlawfully selling the medal. Both men pleaded guilty. Robinson was fined 10s and Bell was convicted and discharged. The prosecution was brought under section 3 of the Military . Decorations and Distinctive Badges Act, 1918, which was passed in the latter stages of the Great War, with the object of preventing the abuse of military decorations and orders.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22114, 18 November 1933, Page 14
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