HEAVY FINES FOR RATIONING OFFENCE
Press Assn.
By felecjrayh
-Comjriaht
Keceivcd Alondav, 7.40 p.m. SYDNEY, April 35. Bntter and nieat supplied to the .Masonic ('lub without coupons resiiited 111 live nien being lined in the Specikt Eederal Court tdday. ATr. L. C. Badham, K.C., who proseeuted, said: "The AlasOnic Club sdems to think that it is entitled to get bntter 110 matter who eise goes Without. So long as it is for fenteftainiftg servicemen, tlie rest of the community carl g'o hang. " The JMagistrate, ATr. Bromhead, saio that evidentlv no protit was ntade 011 htiy of the transaetions. At tlie saute time the oifence struck at the root oi the whole rationing svstem. It was pleaded in defeitce that the club had extended lionorary nienibershiji to .'1500 Australian servicemen and 2000 Enited States and Euglish seryicemeiu One defenda.nt was lined a totaJ of £200 on live charges of supplying buttet withudt coupons. Two otliers were lined £40 eacli. The assistant manager was lined a total of £55 on charges relating to rneht and two otliers were lined £00 arttl £25 fespectively.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 April 1946, Page 5
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181HEAVY FINES FOR RATIONING OFFENCE Chronicle (Levin), 16 April 1946, Page 5
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