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(Per Press Association.) AL'CKL.AXD, Ma v 7. “You i; now J am too old a hand to believe ,ur story that it was all a joke,” said Mr Hunt, S.M., to Newell Harry iVTdiams, tva’ersider, who ap’ peared on summons and pleaded not
girlty to a charge of stealing a earl‘-n of toothpaste- valued at £2 Dupropertv of -t'he Union Company. A wharf ‘clerk gave evidence that sow accused carry the carton awns from the steamer Wingatm a drst-i>ic<-of ino'out forty fee!;. When told to pit’ the carton bid;. He did so. Acim-m was fined “'£2. with costs 12s. •‘Despite the leniency shown in this Court, pillaging still goes on in Auckland, said Senior Detective Hall.
Two bluejackets from .the warship Dunedin, Fred Ilmwfhorne Alalbnson and Albert Dudley Kaye, pleaded guilty to converting a motor Air.improperly of Walter Broad, at BliilL The police said the ear was taken from outside a theatre. It ran into .. ditch and whs damaged to the ex'tent of £43 Mr Hunt, 5.M... handed the men over ’o the Naval authorities to deal with. He ordered Kaye to pay £l5, and Malllin&on £2B.
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Grey River Argus, 8 May 1936, Page 7
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