INTERFERENCE WITH RAILWAY LINES
PLATELAYER ADMITTED TO PROBATION From Our Own Reporter GREYMOUTH, July 14. For unlawfully interfering with the railway lines at Waimunga on June 20, a platelayer employed by the Railways Department was admitted to probation for two years by Mr Justice Fleming, when he appeared for serttence in the Supreme Court at Greymouth to-day. He was William John Reid. 42. a married man with six children, who had pleaded guilty in the lower Court.
His Honour said that there was no real criminal intent in eftsoner’s act and it appeared to be a case of a “drunken folly,” though the utmost serious consequences were possible. It was because of accused's wife and six children that accused was not going to prison. He had also considered the fact that he was a good worker and that it was his first offence. Reid was directed to take out a prohibition order and to renew it over the period of his probation.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25547, 15 July 1948, Page 6
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