UNOFFICIAL GAS PIPE.
CONNECTED WITH HOUSE. THZTT CHARGE DISMISSED. "CIRCUMSTANCES SUSPICIOUS." .(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WAIHI, this day. The reserved decision of Mr. F. W. Platts, S.M., has been given in a case in which Bernard Roberts, motor mechanic, was charged with having wilfully interfered with the municipal gas service, and with having attempted to steal gas from a dwelling in Gladstone Road. The evidence showed that before Robert! occupied the house the gas meter had been removed by the gas department. After Roberts vacated the house the gas manager found that the gas service had been connected with the house by a piece of composition piping. Defendant swore that he had not used gas.. There were no gas fittings in the house, and another tenant had occupied it after the gas meter had been removed, and before*. Roberts occupied it. The magistrate said the circumstances were very suspicious, but the evidence was not strong enough to justify a conI miction on either charge. Both charges I were dismissed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 79, 3 April 1928, Page 9
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