Heavy Fines for Black Marketing.
A fine of £lOO on each of two charges was imposed at Paeroa yesterday by the Magistrate, Mr W. H. Freeman, on Henry Robertson Bush, farmer and former Clerk of the Court, who had admitted three charges of illegal trading within the meaning of the Rationing Emergency Regulations. The case was heard at Paeroa on June 10, when the magistrate recorded convictions an dreserved the question of penalty. The magistrate said yesterday that Bush was charged on three informations with selling rationed goods, mainly sheets, pillow slips, etc., without coupons. Facts given by the police showed that defendant had been carrying on the sale of rationed and other goods from a remote country farmhouse on the Hauraki Plains. The farmhouse was owned by defendant and conducted by share milkers named Madgwick. Mrs Madgwick conducted the sales at the house, which was described as little more than a shack, and defendant took full responsibility for the transactions. Mrs Madgwick received no benefit from the operations.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19430706.2.7
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1943, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
169Heavy Fines for Black Marketing. Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1943, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in