CHARGE OF RECEIVING TIN WORTH £612
man committed for trial (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, June 17. Charged with receiving at different times quantities of tin to the total value of £612. the property of the Government Railways Department, Douglas Charles Stevens, aged 32, a metal traveller, appeared before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M.. to-day. Evidence was given by Charles Bold, formerly in charge of the non-ferrous section of the stores at the railway workshops at Hutt, and who is serving a sentence for the theft of tin. He alleged that on various occasions the accused received deliveries of tin for disposal, and that the accused and himself shared the proceeds.
Stevens was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Bail was fixed at £2OO, with two sureties of £IOO each.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21812, 18 June 1936, Page 16
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