COAL STEALING
SEVEN YOUNG LADS
CAUGHT RED HANDED
For years ’—.st it has been the custom in Greymouth, for children of tender years, to collect coal which had fallen from the trucks standing on the Greymouth wharf. That they had no permission to do so was remarked y the Stationmaster at a case before Mr. T. E. Maunsell, S.M. at the Magistrate’s Court this morning, when seven young lads were charged w.th stealing 7 cwt of coal, valued at 12/-, the property of the N.Z. Government. The facts of the as outlined by Detect ive-Sergt. Rawle were, that the boys had been seen by Mounted Constable Wilson, taking coal from the trucks on the wharf. They were placing the coal in bags and carting them away in small barrows. The Magistrate admonished the seven young offenders, win were present in, the Court with their parent'-, and ad vised them to be very careful m the future and to keep away from the wharf. If thev appeared before him main they would bo very severely dealt with.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1920, Page 2
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176COAL STEALING Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1920, Page 2
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