CHANGE OF ADDRESS NOT NOTIFIED

Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22477, 12 January 1943, Page 4

CHANGE OF ADDRESS NOT NOTIFIED

Liquor Illegally Taken Into Special Area i Leslie Henry Cook, aged 23 years, a • labourer, appeared before Mr H. Morgan, S.M., at the Timaru Magistrate’s Court yesterday on three charges. The first was that of having failed to i notify his change of address under the National Service Regulations. 1940. The ’ second charge was that he had given ; an order for liquor intended to be [ taken into an area proclaimed by the . Governor-General, and failed to j notify the person to whom the order , was given that the liquor was intended I to be taken into that area, and that he failed to give the said person a J statement in writing of his name and i address. The third charge was that he had taken a suitcase containing liquor to Taumarunui. a place situated within the area proclaimed by the GovernorGeneral, without having a statement in writing, of the nature and quantity of the liquor, and the name and address of the person to whom it was being taken, securely attached to the outside of the package containing the liquor. Senior-Sergeant S. King said the defendant was a shearer and farm labourer and must have known that he had failed to notify his change of address. He should have received a letter from the military authorities last year, but he had been going about, the country until a warrant was taken out for his arrest. The Magistrate: What have you to say regarding not giving notice of your change of address? Defendant: I just kept putting it off. I was ignorant of the fact..that I had to give notice of a change of address. I was shearing at Ohura, near Taumarunui. The Magistrate: Why did you leave the district? Defendant: I came down here to do shearing. The Magistrate said that the inference seemed that defendant~was dodging his military obligations. If he had been genuinely anxious to serve in the Armed Forces, he would have got in touch with them before this. Defendant: I was under the manpower. The Magistrate: You have been wandering about the country for 12 months when you should have been in camp. You are sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour. Referring to the second and third charges. Cook explained that he was doing shearing work near Taumarunui. He saw other shearers taking liquor there and he did not know he was committing an offence in so doing. The package contained 32 pint bottles of ale and one quart bottle of wine. On the second charge he was fined £5 and 10 - costs; and on the third charge he was fined £lO and 10/- costs.