BUTCHER FINED
RATIONING REGULATION BREACHES (P A.) Christchurch, March 6. Lancelot Ural Higgs, butcher, was fined a total of £l5 on two charges of breaches of the rationing regulations, in the Magistrate's Court to-day. Higgs was charged that between June 30, 1945, and January 3, 1946. he failed to declare on his trades authority to acquire meat 13,9661 b. of rationed meat, and that between the same dates he acquired that quantity of meat from the Wholesale Meat Company and others, under circumstances in which the Wholesale Meat Company and others were prohibited from supplying the meat under the Emergency Regulations. Higgs pleaded guilty to both charges. Detective-Sergt. A. A. Heron said that Higgs had obtained the meat by submitting untrue returns of his purchases. In view of the amount involved, the Food Controller considered it a serious case.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 56, 8 March 1946, Page 8
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139BUTCHER FINED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 56, 8 March 1946, Page 8
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