FAKE COUPON ISSUE
SUPPLIES OF PETROL PRINTER FINED £2 (Tor Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Stated to have printed two coupons resembling official petrol coupons and used them to obtain petrol, Bernard Ellis Williams, aged 25, a compositor, pleaded guilty in the Police Court to-day, and was fined £2 on each of two charges. A charge of forging a coupon was dismissed, the police offering no evidence. The Magistrate, Mr. J. L. Stout, issued a warning that now the matter had ventilated others appearing before him need not expect such lenient treatment. Williams, who' was employed ' by a city printing firm, was .stated to have said that he got the occasional use ot a car owned by his mother. As he was not a registered owner lie was unable to get coupons. He had printed only two and then realised his foolishness and destroyed the type and the Crown.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20079, 27 October 1939, Page 8
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149FAKE COUPON ISSUE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20079, 27 October 1939, Page 8
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