RATIONING BREACHES
BUTCHER HEAVILY FINED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 28. Fines totalling £302 10s in respect of 10 charges involving breaches of the Meat Rationing Regulations were imposed on C. I. Villars, manager of Barber and Co., butchers, Wellington, by Mr H. J. Thompson, S.M., in a reserved judgment in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Several other defendants were also fined.
Villars, who accepted responsibility for offences relating to Barber and Co. was fined £IOO for over-stating the quantities of meat supplied to the Dominion Monarch, £75 m respect of the Themistocles, £SO in respect of the Akaroa, £25 in respect of the Karamea, £25 in respect of George’s, Ltd. (Empire Cafe),. £7 10s in respect of the Wellington Club, £5 on each of four charges in respect of Hill Bros., Ltd.
George’s, Ltd. (Empire Cafe) were fined £75 for acquiring meat in excess of their permit. B. A. Single, manager of the Wellington Club, was fined £7 10s on a similar charge, and Hill Bros., Ltd., £5 on each of four similar charges.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26243, 29 August 1946, Page 10
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