SUPREME COURT.
SENTENCES IMPOSED. Wellington, July 13. Tnree months imprisonment was imposed to-day on Gerald Allan Ainsworth, a canvasser aged 29, for failure to account to the Motueka Fruitgrowers’ Association for £29, money collected in respect of 145 orders for cases of fruit. Nine months hard labour was given Harry Erward Phillips, a motor mechanic aged 26, who obtained £4O from Frederick Patton by false pretences. Accused set- up in business as an electrical engineer and acquired a partner who, finding things not in order, threatened to inform the police. The accused them obtained £4O from Patton representing that a man owed him £52 for work done when only £9 was owing. The accused arrived in New Zealand in 1924 and four or five times since has been convicted of false pretences and theft.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 178, 13 July 1927, Page 5
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134SUPREME COURT. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 178, 13 July 1927, Page 5
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