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REMAND NOT WANTED PALMERSTON N„ January 11. “I am p'eading guilty to both these charges. Could not the case be heard in Palmerston North? It is just a waste of the Government’s time and money to send me to Hamilton,” said Cecii Geoffrey Turnbull a labourer and shop assistant, when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court on charges of committing theft at Hamilton, and of fals e pretences at Christchurch. >
Detective-Sergeant Meikle.'ohn asked that the accused be remanded Io appear in Hamilton on Wednesday. ‘‘You must go to the plac e where the crime was committed,” said the Magistrate. ‘‘This Court has no power to deal with you. It is only a matter of form that you have been brought up here.” The charges alleged were the theft at Hamilton of £5, and that, at Christchurch, with intent to defraud, the accused obtained £135 by falsely representing that he required the money to pay a deposit on a house. The remand was granted.
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Grey River Argus, 16 January 1941, Page 6
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