OFFENCES WHILE ON PROBATION
REFORMATIVE DETENTION ORDERED [Per. United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, August 24. For offences committed while on probation. John Shelly Kennard-Davis, aged 25, an Englishman, was given reformative detention hy Mr I'. H. Levien in the Police Court to-day. He was charged with stealing a suit of clothes and a pair ot shoes, valued at £ll 18s from a hoarding house, incurring a debt of £7 9s for board, and obtaining £3 from an hotel proprietor by means of a valueless cheque. He pleaded guilty to al.l charges. The police produced a statement in which the accused said he had been working on the State housing at Orakei settlement as a carpenter’s labourer. Ho left the job and walked to the city, where he hooked in at tho Star Hotel under the name of “ J. P. Wilson, London.” That night ho went to a party at Remuera. obtaining liquor from an hotel porter hv signing for it, and also obtained £3 from the hotel proprietor by giving him a cheoue. He stole clothinsc from the hoarding house where he had previously resided. The Magistrate sentenced the accused to reformative detention for a period not exceeding 12 months.
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Evening Star, Issue 23354, 25 August 1939, Page 3
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199OFFENCES WHILE ON PROBATION Evening Star, Issue 23354, 25 August 1939, Page 3
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