MONEY SENT OUT

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21223, 20 September 1940, Page 7

MONEY SENT OUT

FINANCE BREACH ALLEGED MOTHER IN AUSTRALIA (By Telegrapn.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Thursday “ The Court is at present considering, following a case in Wellington, whether the revocation in June of the whole of the April regulations is a bar to prosecution,” said Mr A. M. Goulding, S.M., in the Petone Magistrate’s Court today, after hearing a case in which Mrs Louise Bilderbeck was charged with committing a breach of the Finance Emergency Regulations, 1940. Decision was reserved. Senior-Sergeant H. C. D. Wade, who conducted the prosecution, said that in April defendant was granted permission to send £5 to Australia on the grounds that the money was intended for the support of her mother. She received a money-order for the amount and enclosed it in a letter to a Mrs Barlow in New South Wales. In a letter she asked that the money should be banked in her own account. The letter was intercepted and the money held. The breach occurred a few days after the regulations came into force on April 10.

Mr W. Coles, for the defence, said defendant, who had been in New Zealand only 18 months, had an aged mother in New South Wales. Mrs Barlow was a close friend, and when defendant came to New Zealand she filled in a number of withdrawal slips for small amounts and gave Mrs Barlow permission to operate on the account when defendant’s mother needed money. Defendant had a son in the Australian Navy, counsel continued, and received 5s weekly in New Zealand on this account. It was virtually this money which was being remitted back to Australia. When in Australia recently defendant made arrangements for this money to be paid there.