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PROPRIETORS OF SERVICE STATION ILLEGAL PETROL SALES IN WELLINGTON, NUMBER OF OTHER PEOPLE FINED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Imprisonment with hard labour was the sentence imposed by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today on Charles Norman Young and Thomas Irvine Bell, partners in the firm of Young and Bell, Ltd., service station proprietors, for offences connected with the illegal sale of petrol. Young was sentenced to three months imprisonment and Bell to six weeks imprisonment. A number of other people were fined for illegally buying petrol from the firm. It was stated that the petrol came from a secret tank containing more than 400 gallons, which the defendants had held since the time of (he Centennial Exhibition and the existence of which was unknown to the Oil Fuel Controller.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1942, Page 4
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138SENT TO GAOL Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1942, Page 4
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