PRINCIPAL EXHIBIT
BURNT IN DESTRUCTOR
The principal exhibit in the case against a youth who was charged with stealing a pillion' seat, valued at £1, was not put forward in the Magistrate's Court today.
Detective-Sergeant L. B. Revell explained to Mr. J. H. Mosley, S.M., that the pillion seat had been burnt in the destructor. The youth had taken it from a motor-cycle, intending to use it on his own machine. He hid it in the rubbish sack at the place where he worked, meaning to take it home later, bnt shortly after he left the- rubbish cart arrived. Before the detective in charge of the case arrived at the destructor, the seat had been destroyed.
The Magistrate adjourned the case for six months, stating that if the defendant was of good behaviour the charge would be dismissed. A condition was that he should pay for the seat .within seven days. The defendant's name was suppressed.
SHIPPING
MIDDLESEX CLEARS COLON,
The Middlesex, which left Auckland on October °9 for London, Avonmouth, Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow, sailed from Colon on Wednesday.
TONGARIRO LEAVES LAS PALMAS.
The Tongariro, which left Auckland on October IB for London and West Coast of the United Kingdom ports, cleared Las Falmas in the Canary Islands on Tuesday afternoon.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 125, 22 November 1935, Page 13
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