TEACHER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
CHARGES OF INDECENT ASSAULT (New Zealand Press Association; GREYMOUTH, July 11 Five charges of indecent assault ware faced by a 20-year-old probationary schoolteacher, Patrick Joseph McGrath, of South Beach, when he appeared before Mr H. J. Thompson. S.M., in the Greymouth Magistrate’s Court today. McGrath pleaded not guilty to all charges, and was remanded to appear in the Supreme Court at Gfeymouth for trial. Bail was granted at £lOO, with one surety of £5O. The police say that the alleged offences, which involve four seven-year-old girls and one
were all committed at the Cobden primary school between Jvne 1 and June 4 this year. Detective-Sergeant R. S. Sm’th appeared for the police, and McGrath
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27402, 15 July 1954, Page 9
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