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“SCANDALOUS CASE”

OVER=SUPPLY OF FISH OBTAINED BY LONDON LUXURY HOTEL NUMBER OF PROSECUTIONS. GAOL SENTENCES AND FINES. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, May 28. Grosvenor House, in Park Lane, a luxury hotel, has been fined £5OO and fifty guineas costs for obtaining between February 7 and March 6, 7,2061b5. of fish, whereas it was entitled to only 1,3221b5. under the Catering Establishments Order. Maurice Smith, the hotel’s buyer, was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment and Cecil Abbott assistant catering manager, to a month’s imprisonment. The Magistrate said: “This is a scandalous case. If I could send a company to prison I would send Grosvenor House. The ordinary citizen is lucky if he gets any fish and what he gets usually is what before the war would not have been considered fit for human consumption.” Mrs Rachel Levy, confectioner, was fined £5OO, with costs not exceeding £l2O, after pleading guilty to various charges of using and disposing of sweets coupons and receiving stolen ration documents. , Six men were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from nine to 21 months on similar charges. The latest figures of food prosecutions issued revealed that there were 2,990 in Britain last January, 2,847 of which were successful.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1943, Page 3

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“SCANDALOUS CASE” Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1943, Page 3

“SCANDALOUS CASE” Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1943, Page 3

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