VICEREGAL
Government House, Wellington,
October 4. This morning his Excellency the Governor-General presided at a meeting of the Executive Council. Her Excellency Lady Newall opened a meeting of the council of the' Junior T?e_. Cross
"It seems with Steele that if you give a man sufficient rope he will hang himself," said Mr. J. L. Stout SM in the Magistrate's Court today, when Walter James Steele, seaman, 19 and Charles Walter Joseph Bull, steward 18, appeared for sentence on car conversion charges. Mr. G. Joseph, counsel for the accused, made a plea for leniency, pointing out that both had spent about five years at sea. Steele appeared to be the major party in the offences, he added. The Magistrate agreed. Bull was admitted to probation for two years and Steele was committed to Borstal for two years.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 6
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