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MAN OF GERMAN DESCENT FOUND ON DEFENCE RESERVE. SIGNS PROHIBITING ENTRY IGNORED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. A man of German descent. Rudolph Hirter, a wharf labourer aged 42. who has been all his life in New Zealand, was charged in the Magistrate's Court with trespass without permission on a Defence area. . The police said Hirter, with a powerful pair of binoculars in his possession, was found hiding in some bushes. Hirter admitted that he saw signs prohibiting entry and ignored them. Counsel said it was a case of carelessness and not a deliberate offence. Hirter was below Brown Hill and not' in a position to see or observe gun emplacements. As far as ships were concerned, Hirter was on the wharf every day and had no need to scale hills to see what was going on. Actually. Hirter was looking for bottles and was in the habit, of carrying binoculars with him. The Magistrate (Mr J. L. Stout) said that not so long ago another man got 14 days for the same offence. That had not been a sufficient deterrent. He imposed a sentence of 21 days’ imprisonment with hard labour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1941, Page 6
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