FINED FOR THEFT
AVATERSIDER IX COURT | "This is a similar case to the one ' I heard last Friday and in view of the circumstances I will deal with < him in the same way and impose a ; line of £5." said Mr. J. H. Luxford. S.M., in the Police Court to-day, I when David Joseph King (48). a j waterside worker, admitted the theft I of a hindcjuarter of mutton valued 1 at 6/, the property of a shipping i company. Mr. J. J. Sullivan repre- j sentecl King. Senior-Sergeant Sparks said that at 8.30 p.m. on June 22 a constable found King leaving the wharf with the meat in a bag. King said it was part of the cargo he had been hand-! ling on a ship. Mr. Sullivan mentioned that King had never been in trouble previously.! He was married, with five children, 1 and had served on minesweepers in j the last war and the present war. He had been blown up on two occasions. King could not explain why he took the meat, which he found in the 'tween decks. He thought it did not belong to anyone. Counsel asked that King should be dealt with by a fine and not be sent to prison.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 153, 30 June 1944, Page 6
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FINED FOR THEFT
Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 153, 30 June 1944, Page 6
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