CONTROL OF FINANCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24408, 20 September 1940, Page 3

CONTROL OF FINANCE

SENDING MONEY OVERSEAS BREACH OF REGULATIONS ALLEGED (Special ro Daily Times) WELLINGTON, Sept. 19. “ The court is at present considering, following a case in Wellington, whether the revocation in June of the whole of the April regulations is a bar to prosecution,” said Mr A. M. Goulding, S.M., in the Petone Court to-day after hearing a case in which Mrs Louise Bilderbeck, .a hairdresser, of Moera, was charged with committing a breach of the Finance Emergency Regulations, 1940. Decision was reserved. Senior Sergeant H. C. D. Wade, who conducted the prosecution, said that in April the defendant ' was granted permission to send £5 to Australia on the grounds that the money ,was intended for the support of her mother. She received a money order for the amount and enclosed it in a letter to a Mrs Barlow in New South Wales. In the letter she asked that the money should be banked in her own account. The letter was intercepted and the money held. The breach occurred a few days after the regulations came into force on April 10. Mr W. Coles appeared for the defendant, and, in pleading guilty,'he said the breach was only a technical one. The defendant, who had been in New Zealand for only 18 months, had an aged mother in New South Wales. Mrs Barlow was a close friend, and when the defendant came to New Zealand she filled in a number of withdrawal slips for small amounts and gave Mrs Barlow permission to operate on her account when the defendants mother needed money. The defendant, counsel stated, had a son in the Australian Navy and received 5s a week in New Zealand on this account. It was virtually this money which was being remitted back to Australia. When in Australia re* cently, the defendant made _ arrangements for the money to be paid there.