DESTROYED RECORD.
POLICE GAZETTE DAMAGED. STOLE OWN PROTOGRAPH. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, this day. An unusual case was heard at the Greymouth Magistrate's Court this morning when James William Ivennington wee charged with committing mischief and wilfully damaging a police gazette, the property of the Government, to the value of 10/. Detective-Sergeant H. E. Knight said the gazette was strictly confidential, comprising a weekly record of police and criminal work in New Zealand. The gazettes were bound into annual volumes, which could not be replaced and were practically indispensable to the police. On the night of May 13 an assault occurred at Greymouth, and a constable took several persons, including accused, to the police' station. Accused was left in the watch house whilst the others were questioned. He went to the 1932 volume of the gazette containing his owii record and photograph, tore it out and took away the page relating to himself. Accused subsequently admitted the offence. Mr. H. Morgan, S.M., fined accused £2 or seven days.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 7
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