TREES DAMAGED BY FIRE
Young Man Convicted Cyril Christian Hayes, labourer and lorry-Griver, aged 21, was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday, on a charge that, without lawful authority, at Tangimoana, he lit a fire in the Tangimoana forest plantation which damaged 12 pine trees valued at £lB, “The offence is typical of what accused Is. He is a senseless sort of individual and apparently lit the fire without any conception of the damage it might cause,” said Detective-Ser-geant P. Doyle, who prosecuted. Accused, it was stated, was residing at liongotea on the date of the fire, and when wandering aliout. he called on some neighbours who were out, took some meat from their safe, and went into the forest to light a fire and cook it. He was at present awaiting sentence on charges of breaking and entering and for the conversion of a car.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 175, 21 April 1937, Page 8
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