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THEFT OF £3 By Men on Drinking Bout BY MEN ON DRINKING BOUT. (Per Press Association;. DUNEDIN. September 9. Sentences of seven days’ imprisonment were inflicted on two men, John Frances Magneil, and Norman Darcy Bryden, who p’eaded guilty at the Police Court to-day to charges of stealing £3 in money from William Low e Andrews, farmer, of Southland, when the complainant came tp Dunedin to sit for an examination for an engineer’s certificate. The three men met casually, and went on a drinking bout, and the offence was committed in a t|axi. Andrews had £l7O in his possession, but he had left £165 of it with a hotel licensee Trust Abused TIPSY MOTOR CYCLIST. DUNEDIN. September 9Robert Olson to-day made his fourth appearance on a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor cycle-, and he was prohibited from driving for ten years, and was sentenced to three months’ gaol. On a previous occasion, he was fined £lO, and his license was cancelled for a similar period, but he (was then given a permit to ride to and from work, provided he took out a prohibition order. The Magistrate, said he had abused the trust placed in him. and had only himself to blame for thc position in which he now found himself.
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Grey River Argus, 10 September 1935, Page 5
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