COURTS AND OFFENCES.
SHOPLIFTER DEALT WITH. (BY TELEGRAPH—PItESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 4. A widow appeared in the Magistrate’s Court to-day charged with shoplifting, having stolen goods to the value of £1 17s from the Farmers’ .Co-op. stores. The Magistrate suppressed the name of the woman, who had had no previous convictions, and imposed a fine of £2, in default fourteen day’s imprisonment. He warned the woman that if she came before him again for a similar offence she would be sent to gaol. Hamilton, March 4. An elderly man John George Henry Blane, a farmer near Tauhiarunui, received a sentence of six months’ imprisonment in the Supreme Court today for discharging a firearm with intent to intimidate a.neighbour.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 March 1927, Page 6
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