Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Monday 19 August 1918

In fining William Bunting, a Mexborough dealer, £5 for breach of the Rabbit Prices Order, the purchaser being a soldier’s wife, Mr. M. Koakes, a Doncaster magistrate, on Saturday remarked

“If you want to do anyone down any time, don’t do it on a soldier’s wife.”

Driffield Times – Saturday 24 August 1918

Excessive Charge for Rabbit

At the West Riding police Court Saturday —before Mr. U. Nokes and other magistrates

William Bunting, fiah and game dealer, Mexborough, was summoned for a breach of the Rabbit Prices Order.

A girl named Dorothy Steel, whose father is a soldier, went to the shop and bought a rabbit, which the defendant skin and told her there was change out of two-shilling piece.

The child’s mother went to the shop, and defendant offered her penny, charging 3d. for shinning the animal. Defendant said he sold tbe child the rabbit in skin, and afterwards removed the skin to oblige her. He left the skin on the block.

When the mother came, he asserted, offered her the skin, which was worth 4 ½d and she said she would inform the police.

Superintendent Mumby pointed out that on his own showing defendant was getting 2s 4 ½ d for a skinned rabbit, which should be sold at 1s. 9d.

Defendant was £5