FORGED PETROL COUPONS
YOUNG MAN FINED MAGISTRATE issues warning TO OTHERS ( Per Presa Association.) < WELLINGTON, Oct. 27. Stated to have printed two coupons resembling official petrol coupons and used them to obtain petrol, Bernard Ellis Williams, 25, compositor, pleaded guilty and was lined 12 on each of two charges. A charge of forging a coupon was dismissed, the police offering no evidence. The magistrate, Mr. J. L. Stout, issued a warning that now the m-.t--te'r had been ventilated, others appearing before him need not expect ■ such lenient treatment. Williams, who is employed by a printing firm, was stated to have said that he got the occasional use of a car owned by his mother. As he was not the registered owner, he was unable to get coupons. He had printed only two and then realised his foolishness Vid had destroyed i'ne type and the crown
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 255, 28 October 1939, Page 9
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