MONEY SENT OUT
REGULATIONS EVADED BENCH TAKES SERIOUS VIEW (By Telcg-raph.—Press Association) INVERCARGILL, Tuesday FirsJ; case of its kind in Southland was heard by Mr R. C. Abernethy, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, when William Francis Keane was charged under the Finance Emergency Regulations with unlawfully sending money out of the country. The police stated that defendant sent a postal note for 5s 6d to an Australian consultation.
This was returned to him by the censor, but he then sent the same note to a friend in Melbourne. Unluckily for defendant, the letter was opened by the Australian censor and the postal note found. Replying to the magistrate, defendant said he did not realise he was committing an offence. The magistrate pointed out that
the maximum penalty for «he offence under the regulations was a fine of £2OO or a year’s imprisonment. If any cases of that nature came before the Court he would have no hesitation in inflicting a severe fine and even imprisonment. Defendant was convicted and fined £2.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21203, 28 August 1940, Page 10
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