RATIONING OFFENCE
FALSE RETURNS OF SUGAR STOCKS FINE OF £3O IMPOSED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 6. A warning that traders must co-op-erate with the Food Controller in his effort to control supplies was given by Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., to-day, when he fined William George Sayegh £3O on each of two charges of making a false statement with intent to deceive a rationing officer. The evidence showed that the defendant was a milk bar proprietor, who made false statements regarding the amount of sugar he was holding on two separate dates. The. defendant said he used more sugar in the summer than in the winter and had accumulated the excess sugar found on his premises from his winter supplies. “You really usurped the functions of the food controller,” said the magistrate, who added that the offence was serious because the defendant had deliberately put in a wrong return.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25660, 7 October 1944, Page 8
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148RATIONING OFFENCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 25660, 7 October 1944, Page 8
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