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Shannon News, 18 January 1924, Page 3

Nine years ago, on Gallipoli Peninsula, Sydney Gordon Bowron found himself" in a tight corner, and had it not been for the timely assistance of a big service revolver he would never have returned to New Zealand, states the. Ghristchurch ..Star. This week the old friends were in danger of being parted. Bowron appeared at the Magistrate's Court on "a charge of having failed to register his revolver as required by the Arms Act. Counsel for Bowron said that defendant had failed to register the revolver. He overlooked tho matter. On one occasion bis life had been saved in war by the revolver, and lie was particularly anxioriH that it should not be oonflsc,fit<V|; localise It was of gireat sentiiiMKi'nl value 1,0 him. Tho Magistrate: "Yuii'vi! done your duty, Mr Bowron, twirl I'don't intend to take yo»ur revolver from you. You are convicted vitli out pcwiHy."