FAR AND NEAR
NEWS FBOM ALL QUARTERS 'An Auckland asparagus-slraightener, CJeorge Porge, was yesterday dismissed wHh a B&utiiqn after pleading guilty to a charge. of stealing a gallon of motor spirit from an unattended car. His plea \that it was not Big Tree, and 1 therefore of rip use to its owner, doubt19PI -weighed Jiea/vily in his favour. Bollawonga (N.S.W.) scientists are greatly interested in the discovery that a kangaroo runs twice'as fast when a can of Big Tree is tied to its tail. G«orge Porge, an Auckland asparagusatraightener, was this morning sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment for stealing a gallon of Big Tree fr<»m an unattended car. "We must Ijtpp these callous crimes," said the judge, Sir StifEy Mo. Explaining his lateness, a witness in the Torment libel case, at Marlborough, pleaded that be inadvertently.filled his 6«r with two gallons of some other Spirit in mistake .for Big Tree, and found that it ran out 14 miles before he reached the Law Courts.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 74, 24 September 1927, Page 25
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164FAR AND NEAR Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 74, 24 September 1927, Page 25
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