"SLACKNESS SOMEWHERE"

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 124, 28 May 1942, Page 6

"SLACKNESS SOMEWHERE"

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(0.C.) U KI.LIXGTOX, Wednesday. How do these people manage to get this benzine? There must be a certain amount of slackness somewhere" said Mr. J. L. stout, S.M., m Wellington. when Frederick Arthur Desmond Courtenav and Frederick Hawken pleaded guiltv to charges of aiding and abetting an oftence under the Rental Vehicle Regulations. Senior Sergeant Paine said Courtenav and Hawken wanted to make a business trip to Wanganui and Hawera On their behalf a man named Cornish hired a rental car a? neither of them had a driving license. Cornish then disappeared, and the two defendants made their trips with petrol issued bv special license to Cornish, travelling 1067 miles and using 33J gallons of benzine. The magistrate said it seemed to him that the oil fuel controller was partly to blame for issuing the licenses at all. The defendants were using the petrol for what the oil fuel conti oiler considered a legitimate purpose. In imposing a fine upon Courtenav and Hawken of £5 each on one charge, and convicting and discharging tnem on the others, the maeristrate said that, if the oil fue" conliki t>, a t H u Wed petrol t0 be wasted heavS d not lmp ° Se any