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PA Auckland A Henderson man who sold cannabis to an undercover policewoman posing as an adult student in an Auckland girls school might have bowed to the same pressure if a schoolgirl had pushed him for the drug, Mr T. G. Maxwell, S.M., said in the Magistrate’s Court at Henderson. He ordered Peter John Ewing, aged 27, a carpenter, who had admitted a charge of selling cannabis, to pay an immediate fine of $750, or go to jail for 16 days. Counsel for' Ewing said the defendant had never
sold cannabis before and had refused even to supply a schoolgirl with cigarettes. Ewing had initially refused to supply the policewoman with cannabis, but had been pressed by “an attractive young police constable in some distress.” Ewing sold her two sticks for $lO each — the price he had paid for them. The Magistrate said he could not be persuaded that Ewing was not out to make a quick dollar. Ewing had the cannabis available to sell, no matter what blandishments might have been used.
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Press, 12 April 1979, Page 9
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175Fine-jail alternative Press, 12 April 1979, Page 9
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