PETROL RACKET
REPORTED DISCOVERY IN MELBOURNE PROMOTERS SAID TO HAVE MADE £12,000. BOGUS REGISTRATION CERTIFICATES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright' (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) MELBOURNE. This Day. A huge “racket,” whereby tickets for nearly a million gallons of petrol have been illegally sold and which earned £12.000 for the men who devised the scheme, has been uncovered, the Melbourne police allege. Widespread inquiries by detectives show that bogus consumers' licences, supported by car registration certificates, which were unlawfully obtained, have been presented at post offices and ration tickets obtained. They have been sold mostly at racecourses at the rate of 3d for each gallon. TJhe ticket entitled the motorist to buy. Postal officials were unable to detect the fraud because the licences and registration certificates presented apparently were in order. Charges are expected to be laid shortly.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1941, Page 6
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136PETROL RACKET Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1941, Page 6
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