ENEMY ALIEN FINED

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21205, 30 August 1940, Page 8

ENEMY ALIEN FINED

DROVE FRIEND’S CAR DISCIPLINARY REGULATIONS (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Friday In the Magistrate’s Court Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., fined Crescenzo Aprea, an Italian, £lO for being in possession of a motor-car without a permit. It was stated by the police that a permit had been refused, but Aprea at the request of a friend drove his friend’s car into a garage for repairs. “On the face of it this seems a very trivial sort of offence. You have come before the Court through ignorance and without any intention , to do wrong,” said the magistrate, i “There is a tendency to take heed j of trivial matters under the Aliens ' Control Emergency Regulations, and to treat these breaches in much the same way as breaches of other enactments.

“I regard these regulations as a discipline, and a plea of ignorance is of no avail at all. Alien enemies in this country are given a certain amount of liberty and license, subject to strict compliance with the regulations, and when there is a breach, even if, as in this case, on the face of it the facts do not show anything really serious, the breach nevertheless must be visited with a heavy penalty, in order to let alien enemies know that they have to make themselves fully acquainted with the regulations and obey them in their entirety.”