“These provisions are made to be complied with, and it is proper that they should be complied with so that the police should have a record of all the arms and their owners in the country,” said Mr E. Page. 1 S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington, when George E. Jarvis was charged with selling a rifle without a permit. After the defendant had explained that as the riflle was registered in his own name, he did not know it was necessary to get a permit to sell it, the magistrate said he had probably committed the offence in ignorance, and fined him £l.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4057, 15 December 1931, Page 9
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