£4 FOR EMPTY CASE
Offering to sell a woman cafe keeper a case of whisky, which he said he had got from Australia, for £8, Leslie Murray, aged 35 a labourer, finally accepted £4 for the case and departed, after which the case was found to be empty, said Detective-Sergeant W. McLennan in the Magistrate's Court today when Murray pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing the £4 and was sentenced by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. The detective-sergeant said that Murray had' 27 previous convictions.
Dr. E. P. Neale, secretary of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, left Wellington last night to attend the conference of the Associated Chambers in Invercargill.
Mr. R. McPherson, of Christchurch, general manager of the Wheat Committee, left from Wellington for Christchurch last evening,
Mr. R. H. Bartley, general manager, of the Auckland Electr|c Power Board, has returned to Auckland from Wellington.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 107, 1 November 1941, Page 11
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154£4 FOR EMPTY CASE Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 107, 1 November 1941, Page 11
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