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CHARGES Oi‘ THEFT. SCHOOL COMMITTEE CASE. CHRISTCHURCH. January 14. Ernest Hawkings, formerly chairman of the Spreydon School Committee, wa.s charged at the Police Court today with having stolen £2l 19/8. the property of the Committee. The money represented the amount raised at a concert organised to assist the fund for the improvement of the school grounds. Walter Smith, secretary to the School Committee, said that accused gave him a cheque for the amount, •nt the cheque was not -met by the bank. Detective Thompson said that papers found on accused when he was arrested showed that he was financially emtrussed. A'-cused pleaded not guilty, ami was committed for trial. TH LET OF WOOL. TIM ARC. January 14. At tlie Magistrate’s Court. Thomas Eric Austin pleaded guilty to the theft of wool, valu-.l ;.f £7O. :-ral u a , ram . ■ ’ '<•<; io f’n- Supreme Court for sentence. SOLICITOR CHARGED TIM ARC. January 14. Marfin .Joseph O’Brien, solicitor, of Tiuiani, who was arrested here to-dav l on a charge of alleged forgery in rc.“pert of a cheque for £32 8s fld, was brought before the Magistrate and remanded fill January 21. bail being allowed, self in £2OO and one suretv of £2OO. AUCKLAND CASES. AUCKLAND. January 14. At the Police Court, Frederick Alexis Wildman, aged 17. pleaded guilty to four charges of breaking nd entering various premises and stealing a motor-ear. benzine an,l so on. He was committed for trial. William Harold Cosgrove was charged with breaking and. entering the shop of Charles Donald and stealing jewellery and greenstone valued nr £3O, and with breaking and entering the window of Arthur Lindsay will: intent to commit a crime. He was committed for sentence. L-raneis Leo Credin, aged 25. wan charged with the theft of books from a private house and was remanded. A policeman said he saw Credin leaving the house at midnight. Gredin bolted, but was caught by the policeman. A second man thought to Le Credin’s accomplice escaped.
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Grey River Argus, 15 January 1925, Page 6
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