THEFT OF WATCH.
OFFENCE BY LABOURER. "LENIENCY NOT APPRECIATED." Pleading guilty to the theft of a gold wristlet watch before Mr. J. Morling, S.M., in the Police Court to-day, C'heeeeman Kata, a labourer, aged 18, was committed to a Borstal institute for a period of two years. On a charge of a breach of his probation he was convicted and discharged.
Detective H. F. Miller said that when interviewed yesterday the accused admitted he had taken the watch from a room in a house he had visited with a friend. He returned the watch to the police.
Deltetive-Sergeant Xalder said the accused had been in the Third Echelon, but had been discharged because of a conviction for theft. He had later joined a home defence unit, and yesterday wa* discharged from Narrow Xeek camp because he was medically unfit.
The magistrate said that accused should be placed under control. He had not appreciated the leniency extended to him previously by the Court.
The banana ie sail to be the., most prolific of all food products. It is 44 times more productive than potatoes, and 123 time* more than wheat.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 234, 2 October 1940, Page 13
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