ALIEN FINED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1940, Page 6

ALIEN FINED

DRIVING CAR WITHOUT PERMIT. REGULATIONS MUST BE OBEYED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “On the face of it this seems a very trivial sort of offence. You have come before Court through ignorance and without any intention to do wrong. There is a tendency to take heed of trivial matters under the Aliens Control Emergency Regulations and to treat these breaches in much the same way as breaches of other enactments. •I regard these regulations as discipline and a plea of ignorance is of no avail at all. Alien enemies in this country are given a certain amount of liberty and licence, subject to strict compliance with the regulations and when there is a breach, even if, as in this case, on the face of it the facts don’t show anything really serious, a breach, nevertheless, must be visited with a heavy penalty to let alien enemies know that they have to make themselves fully acquainted with the regulations and obey them in their entirety,” said Mr Luxford in the Magistrate’s Court, when fining Crescenzo I Aprea, an Italian, £lO for being in possession of a motor car without al permit. It was stated by the police that a permit had been refused but Aprea. at the request of a friend, drove a friend’s car into a garage for repairs.