FOREMAN LABOURER SENTENCED FOR FALSE PRETENCES
Pleading guilty to eight charges of false pretences and one of theft, involving £4O. from the Thames Valley Drainage Board. Te Aroha, a halfcaste Maori foreman labourer, Jack Albert, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called uuon within 12 months, by Mr E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court in Opotiki yesterday. The accused was represented by Mr. N. V. Hodgson, while DetectiveSergeant R H. Waterson prosecuted. Albert was also ordered to make restitution of the £4O. The accused obtained this sum over a period L.v filling in the time-sheets of Maori labourers working for the drainage board, of which Albert was foreman, explained Detective-Sergeant Waterson. Albert at pay day collected the extra money from the men concerned.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22817, 11 December 1948, Page 6
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129FOREMAN LABOURER SENTENCED FOR FALSE PRETENCES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22817, 11 December 1948, Page 6
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