MR. COATES “ARRESTED”
NINE-YEAR-OLD CHARGE FUNDS FOR SICK CHILDREN (S'pecial to THE SUN.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The Wellington commercial travellers to-day staged numerous attractions, including a mock court, to raise funds for Christmas for sick and orphan children. Many a well-known public man was “arrested" by gaily-uniformed policemen and driven away to answer astounding charges. The most notable "arrest" was that of tile Prime Minis!e.!-, Mr Coates, who was escorted to Bowen Street corner by a- posse -of- masked police and it band of pipers. He appeared before tho Judge,"Mr. W, Perry, and the registrar, Mr. G. Mackay, charged with the following offence: "For that you in France between 1918 and 1919 did loot the rations and extract therefrom a Military Cross, and thereafter did again loot the rations.' including the rum ration, and did extract therefrom a bar to such Military Cross, such bar having no relationship to the bar defined in the Licensing Act and in a recent Licensing Bill.” A fino of £5 5s was imposed and Mr, Cotue# willingly paid uy.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 210, 24 November 1927, Page 20
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