COURT NEWS
THEFT CHARGES. WELLINGTON, January 14. Sentencing James Hardy, aged 30, a carpenter, to 18 months’ imprisonment with hard labour for breaking, entering, and theft, the Chief justice (the Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Myers) remarked on the fact that prisoner was earning £B/5/- a’ week at the time, yet broke into a woman’s little store and stole 100 packets of cigarettes, four packets of tobacco, and other things. Ronald Keir Duncan, aged 34, a labourer ,who was committed from Palmerston North on two charges of theft from a dwelling, was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment with hard labour on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent.
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Grey River Argus, 16 January 1941, Page 10
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