80 MILES AN HOUR IN CITY STREET
MILITARY POLICE CHASE DESERTER
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 5. Evidence of the pursuit by military police of a deserter, who at one stage of the chase drove at 80 miles an hour, with the police vehicle reaching 60 miles an hour, in Queen street, Auckland, was given at the trial by district court-martial of Trooper Richard Bernard Mills, aged 24, married, of the Ist New Zealand Army Tank Battalion. He was found guilty of desertion and of loss by neglect, of equipment, clothing and regimental necessaries. The accused absented himself without leave from January 23 to February 16, when he was arrested by the military police at Auckland wearing civilian clothes. The accused was sentenced to 60 days in gaol with hard labour. In respect of the second charge he was ordered to be put under stoppage of. pay till he had made good £9/10/- for the loss of equipment. The sentence was promulgated on parade today.
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Southland Times, Issue 24686, 6 March 1942, Page 4
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