GAVE HIMSELF UP
LABOURER ADMITTED TO PROBATION [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, January 6. Imprisoned since New Year’s Eve, when he gave himself tip at the Newton police station, Joseph Daniels (45), a labourer, was admitted to probation by Mr Orr Walker this morning after pleading guilty to a charge of fraudulently omitting to account to the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company’s Employees’ Union for £l3. The police said that Daniels in a statement said lie was a collector of the butcher labourers’ fees at Southdown. He lost £5 out of his pocket while drinking, and in an endeavour to recover the money he invested £5 on the horse Gay Seton at the Auckland races, but the horse lost. He could not sleep, and surrendered to the police. The Magistrate “ordered restitution to be made by instalments, Daniels to take out a prohibition order and refrain from betting on racehorses.
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Evening Star, Issue 22539, 6 January 1937, Page 8
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149GAVE HIMSELF UP Evening Star, Issue 22539, 6 January 1937, Page 8
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