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WOMAN FINED £2O (P A.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 22. "I intend to stop it and stop it sharply," said Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., in the Police Court this morning, when imposing a fine of £2O with costs on Edith Phyllis Guest, a housewife, on a charge of taking a photograph of an aeroplane contrary to the Photography Emergency Regulations. 1939. Guest pleaded guilty and elected to be dealt with summarily. Senior Detective H. Nuttall said the woman had taken a photograph showing her husband, an aircraft sergeant, sitting on an aeroplane. The photograph would undoubtedly have been of great value if it had fallen into enemy hands. For the defence. Mr F. D. Sargent said the picture was not very plain and the offence had been committed quite openly and without sinister intent. It was a case of gross carelessness. "Worse than gross carelessness—lunacy," commented the magistrate.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24949, 23 June 1942, Page 2
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