CHARGES OF FORGERY
ACCUSED ADMITTED TO PROBATION (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 19. A Niuean who, the Auckland Magistrate’s Court was told last week, helped a fellow-islander to open a savings account and then forged withdrawals from it, appeared for sentence before Mr J. W. Kealy, S.M., today. He is Harry Steve Polata, aged 23, a labourer. He was admitted to probation for 18 months on three charges of forgery and uttering. He would be justified in imposing a prison sentence, said the Magistrate, but he did not propose to do so this time. He thought there might be a lot of good still in Polata, and it was his first offence. Polata was ordered to abstain from liquor and to repay the £49 he had stolen from the account.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27638, 20 April 1955, Page 10
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