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AN EXPENSIVE JOKE. AUCKLAND, This Day. Alexander Mulholland (32) was to-day fined £10 and -witnesses' expenses for assuming the designation of a detective. Titus M'Kenna, of EHerslie, and a friend went into the Imperial Hotol after Saturday's trots. There the accused asked witness for his name aud address, -which he persisted in taking and entering in a race book. Witness was tolci that 3£ulhollaud-was not a detective, and somobody in the bar called a constable, who arrested the accused. The defence was that Mulholland-had posed as a detective for a joke.—> P.A. TAITA GOSCJE SLIP. At about 3.30 this afternoon the engineer of the Hutt County Council stated that the slip had been partialljr cleared.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 143, 21 June 1927, Page 16
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