HIGH COST OF FRUIT
A fine of 10s, in default 3 days' imprisonment was imposed upon Maurice Sampson, a steward, aged 21, who appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, charged with the theft of a pineapple value at Bd. Constable J. J. N. McCarty described how he had seen the accused take a pineapple from the front of a fruiterer's shop in Lambton Quay and slip it under his coat. When accosted he said he had bought it.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 98, 28 April 1939, Page 17
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84HIGH COST OF FRUIT Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 98, 28 April 1939, Page 17
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