“STRAIGHT OUT FRAUD”
ALTERATION OF PETROL COUPONS. MAN FINED IN MARLBOROUGH. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. “A straight-out fraud, and very near forgery,” was the description applied by the police prosecution to the action of Stanley Leonard Schroder, a labourer, who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to purchasing four gallons of petrol and peeking to make such a purchase by means not in accord with the regulations. The police stated that defendant adopted the scheme of altering and defacing figures on the coupons. He effected one purchase, but a service station proprietor detected the ruse before the next purchase was attempted. “You haVe committed a very serious offence indeed, and you are lucky not to be charged with something more serious,” commented Mr T. E. Maunscll, S.M., in imposing a fine of £6.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1941, Page 5
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