COURTS AND OFFENCES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 June 1928, Page 5

COURTS AND OFFENCES

DECISION REVERSED. ' (By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, June 25. A re-hearing of the case against AYilliani Nathan Hogg, licensee of the G oiden Age Hotel, Bluff, was granted in the Bluff Police Court to-day. As a result the justices of tine peace reversed their decision and the conviction and fine of £3 were revoked. The charge against Hogg >; was of receiving four drums of varnish and two drums of enamel, the prperty of the Commonwealth and Dominion Shipping Line, knowing them to nave been dishonestly obtained. In the claim for re-hearing there was a clause stating that Hogg had been arrested straight iaiway following the finding of the stolen property in his yard and that he had appeared before the court almost immediately. Counse); submitted that what happened was that when the men offered the goods to Hogg they were rebuffed. Obviously, counsel said, they could not walk the streets with the paint, isO' they "1 anted it where it was found—in Hogg’s va.rd. Two firemen on the Port Sydney gave ev'dence that they overheard two men talkin" on the ship, one stating that he had the ‘stuff” planted in the yard.