THEFT OF TARPAULIN
The explanation that he thought a tarpaulin had been condemned and discarded was made by George Wilman, a labourer, aged 43, when pleading guilty in the Magistrate's Court today to the theft in March, 1936, of a tarpaulin, valued at £5, th° property of the New Zealand Government Railways.
Detective-Sergeant P. Doyle, who prosecuted, said that the defendant, for some time prior to March, 1936, was employed in the new Wellington Railway Station. He used half a tarpaulin to cover his motor-cycle at work and the other half to cover it at home. The Department said that the tarpaulin was whole when it was taken and that it had not been condemned.
Mr. A. J. Mazengarb said that Wilman was a respectable married man, with three children. He had never previously been before the Court. Wilman regarded tlie.taipaulin as condemned and used one half on his motor-cycle garaged at home in full view of the public, showing the Railway Department initials and with no attempt at concealment whatever. Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., admitted Wilman to probation for 12 months. An application for the suppression of his name was refused.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 86, 8 October 1937, Page 10
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193THEFT OF TARPAULIN Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 86, 8 October 1937, Page 10
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