POSSESSION OF DRUG
WAR VETERAN FINED. [ Per Prest Association.] AUCKLAND, Aug. 30. When Norman Kenneth Sligo, aged 32, came before the Court to-day on a charge of knowingly having in his pos-, session a dangerous drug, evidence was given that he had been taking a certain drug ever since the war, when he was severely injured as the result of a gun backfiring on a battleship. Part of his abdomen was blown away and he had since undergone 35 operations. He had suffered such acute pain that tho drug was essential to him. Ho made no attempt to traffic, in drugs. The magistrate fined him £lO or one month, saying that if he could not got the drug from a doctor in the proper way he should make representations to the proper authority. A young man. aged nineteen, whose name was suppressed, and who admitted stealing drugs from the firm which employed him, and supplying them to Sligo, was convicted and placed on pro bation.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 205, 31 August 1932, Page 7
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165POSSESSION OF DRUG Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 205, 31 August 1932, Page 7
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