GERMAN AUTOMATIC PISTOLS

Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1929, Page 7

GERMAN AUTOMATIC PISTOLS

“TROUBLE ALWACS BEING GIVEN.” _ “I have had experience with these automatic pistols all over the district.' They are always giving trouble,” said the Magistrate, Mr. R, W. Tate, in the New Plymouth Police Corut yesterday when, on behalf of a defendant who pleaded guilty Mr. J. H. Sheat claimed the charge Was a most unusual one and Jaid} not under the Arms Act, but under a regulation he had never heard of. Ivy Emma Taylor was charged- that while being a near relative, the wife, of G. Hostick Simons, a person who was the holder of a license to retain an unlawful weapon, she had failed to notify, the police of the death of Hostick. The defendant pleaded guilty and the magistrate said he would merely convict and discharge if the weapons were handed over to the police. The case was adjourned to. allow of this. Hostick had been In possession of two German automatic pistols, said Senior-Sergeant McCrorie, and it was as long ago as 1924 that he had died. No notification had ever been given to the police by the defendant, who had since married.