BREACH OF PRISONS ACT
FORMER PRISONER’S OFFENCE. LEFT FOOD FOR FRIEND. .By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 19. While out of Paparua prison on license, (Joseph William Groom returned to the prison boundary in a taxi and left some provisions for another prisoner. For this breach of the Prisons Act, he was fined £5 and costs by Mr H. P. La wry, S.M., this morning. The provisions included a pot of jam, two tins of tobacco, and a packet of chocolates. Groom was stopped by the prison superintendent when driving away from the grounds.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 19 September 1934, Page 7
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93BREACH OF PRISONS ACT Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 19 September 1934, Page 7
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