CONCESSION TICKET

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 17 October 1921, Page 5

CONCESSION TICKET

IMPROPERLY OBTAINED

I (BT TELEGEAPH— VB.KBB ASSOCIATION) 1 AUCKLAND, Oct. 16. • btrong ccpiiment was made by Mr. Poynton, S.M, ,in the Police Court on Saturday on the evidence given at the rehearing of a case in which Cornelius McDevitt was sentenced to fourteen days imprisonment, for using a departmental ooiMK*:on Wder to obtafn a entitled. The rehearing was granted IZJmJT 0* that fre* w«JSmS? j- In his decision the magistrate said the new evidence consisted mainly of a statement by Richard f3 a *nE?'*°« tht effecfc V** on^he &* of the offence he was given an order for j a concession ticket Xy one Brewih with a request that he shonld <En money from Mr*. Brewin and purchase , the ticket He afterward^S SS fendant, w ho desired to digcuw bust S hl" lto **** J 1"16- The magistrate »aid he. was/certain the etory was *i concoction, giving several reasonT^nd fSprfsonTnr^^ to fo-tee^d^ ar! hQ x ma? istrate refused leave to jnch. an offence and then comes and | <«Ui »<& hee.about it, is not d^eWing of any consideration It is simnif ! shockmg what he has don«4«d^S I _ " _ ' ''. ' I— I