BREACH OF PROBATION
Failure, to comply with the terms of his probation was a,charge to which Leslie Robert, Gray pleaded'guilty in the Magistrate's Court at Lower Hutt yesterday. ..,,... . Detective-W. McLcnnnu said that the terms of Gray's'probation required him to pay 30s a month as restitution and to report to the police once a month. He had not kept up his payments, and on every occasion on which lie was due to report a constable had to be sent for him. It was to this failure to report thatthe detective took exception, and he asked that Gray be dealt with on the original charge. On Grays belialf, Mr. G. Findlay maintained that the breach was. almost entirely a technical one. He had reported to the police fourteen different times in tlie year and he had been in Petonc all the time and constantly under the sight of the police. The real breach lay in his failure to pay the money as required, and this was sheer inability. He had been out of work continuously since the offence, and had a wji'e and two children to keep. Pointing out that even if Gray were unable to pay he could always report to the police, Mr. J. G. L". Hewitt, S.M., extended the term of Gray's probation by six months.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 103, 4 May 1933, Page 7
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217BREACH OF PROBATION Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 103, 4 May 1933, Page 7
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