THEFT OF LIQUOR
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON, February 10. Three men, Jim Braithwaite, aged -30 a mill worker; Alva Vernon Mc Minn aged 28, a labourer; and George Thomas White, aged 34, a bushman, who had been found guilty of stealing a quantity of liquor from a police cell at Taumarunui, appeared for sentence before Mr. Justice Blair m the Supreme Court at Hamilton. Each was admitted to three years probation and ordered to abstain from liauor for that time. Each also is to pay a third of the costs of the prosecution and a third of the cost of the stolen liquorMore than 10 per cent, of the eligible members of the Wellington V.M.C.A. are serving with the New Zealand Forces or have volunteered. A statement to this effect was made by Mr. R. H. Nimmo, the president, at the YJVI.C.A. Optimists' Club lunch.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 36, 12 February 1940, Page 12
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