Youth Struck Jackpot In Cigarette Machine
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, September 30. A youth “struck the jackpot” with a cigarette-vending machine at the Quinns Post Hotel on September 20, counsel said in the Upper Hutt Magistrate’s Court today.
Every time Tuhuiao Anarui Kahukiwa, aged 19, an apprentice carpenter, put 40c into; the machine he received a! packet of cigarettes and got! his money back, the Court | was told.
Kahukiwa pleaded guilty to;Magistrate the theft of five packets of cigarettes and 40c in change. Counsel, Mr A. J. Ryan, said lit was more a case of lack of scrupulous honesty rather than of theft. “There would be very few men of such moral fibre that they could resist this bird in the hand,” he said. “The barman asked him where he got all the cigarettes and Kahukiwa told bim. The barman went and tried, with the same success, and the police were called,” said Mr Ryan. Mr W. McAlevey, S.M., adjourned the case for a fortnight and said he would dis, charge Kahukiwa under section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act if he paid $2O to
(the Cancer Society, as suggested by Mr Ryan, in the ' meantime. I “The method of acquiring J the goods was purely by j chance—he did not set out deliberately to steal,” said the
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32108, 2 October 1969, Page 19
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