BOUGHT STOLEN PETROL

Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22470, 4 January 1943, Page 2

BOUGHT STOLEN PETROL

Double Market Price Charged with receiving six gallons of petrol, valued at 12. 6, the property of the Army Department, knowing it to have been stolen, Andrew Snowden, aged 38, married, a compressor-mech-anic (Mr Newberry), pleaded not guilty, but later pleaded guilty, before Mr J. H. Luxford. S.M.. at Wellington. Senior-Detective Walsh said that accused was found with three two-gallon tins of petrol in the back of his car. Two of the tins were a khaki colour and the third was black. Accused stated that he had drawn the petrol from a pump belonging to his employers and had surrendered coupons for it. He owned three cars. After Detective Mahood had read a statement in which accused said that he had bought the petrol from a soldier for 5/- a gallon and had thrown the khaki-coloured tins into the harbour, Mr Newberry amended the plea to one of guilty. Mr Walsh said that accused had two previous convictions for dishonesty, but had not been in trouble in recent years. He was a half-caste Maori. “Receiving in these cases is worse than theft." said Mr Luxford. "This man pays double the market price and forms part of the system which encourages dishonest people in charge of petrol to sell it." A sentence of two months’ imprisonment was imposed. changeable weather Fickle weather changes bring coughs and colds. Be prepared with Baxter’s Lung Preserver. Be sure it is “Baxters.” the cough remedy proved by time. Prepared by Baxters, Ltd.. Colombo St.. Christchurch. Sold everywhere