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WANGANUI’S LIGHT CRIME LIST LPer Press Association]. WANGANUI, August 9. Judge Smith congratulated the Wanganui district on the small list of criminal cases at the Supreme Court session, which opened to-day. There were only two eases and in each, true bi Is were ret tuned. INTOXICATED DRIVER. DUNEDIN, August 9. John Jesse Woodford, 29, sustenance man, was sentenced to three weeks’ imprisonment for being intoxicated when in charge of a car. His license was suspended for two years. Accused, who had a previous conviction, ran into a verandah pole.
UNEMPLOYMENT FRAUD. WANGANUI, August 9. Before Mr. Salmon, S.M., Harold Byron Chandler, 56, who registered for unemployment as married, and had not been supporting his wife for the past 23 years, obtained £lBl from the fund, to which he was not entitled. He was fined £5O, and was also sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment for making a false declaration.
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Grey River Argus, 10 August 1937, Page 8
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