Fine For Trying To Steal From T.A.B.

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31315, 10 March 1967, Page 3

Fine For Trying To Steal From T.A.B.

(New Zealand Press Association) HAMILTON, March 9. Two years’ probation and a fine of £5O was imposed by Mr Stewart Hardy, S.M., on Lewis Teruinga Kaka, aged 32, an Auckland taxi-driver, for attempting to steal £25 10s from the Totalisator Agency Board in Hamilton on March 8.

Detective Senior-Sergeant R. L Chadwick, who prosecuted, said that Kaka had attempted to cash 30s worth of doubles tickets. The collect on the tickets was worth £25 10s. Detective Senior-Sergeant Chadwick said that the purchaser went to the Claudelands Raceway and found he had lost the tickets. He rang the manager of the T.A.B.

and a stop was put on the collect from the tickets. He said that at 11 o’clock yesterday morning the accused went to the T.A.B. to cash the tickets and when told that a stop had been put on the collect he said he would go to the police. “On questioning he first said he had bought the tickets himself,” said Detective Senior-Sergeant Chadwick, “when he bought a fare to Hamilton.”