MAGISTRATE’S COURT.
Per Press Association
TIMARU, July 22
At the Magistrate’s Court, for driving a motor-car while in a state of intoxication, Leslie James Rooney, who collided with a stationary car, was fined £l2 10s and his license was suspended until its date of expiration. RAROTONGAN SENTENCED. Per Press Association. . AUCKLAND, July 22. Stated by the police-in Court to-day to have 56 previous convictions, Joseph Tainui, a Rarotongan labourer and musician, aged 42, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for obtaining £1 10s in cash and groceries valued at 7s 3d by falsely -representing that he was employed by the Union Steam Ship Co. The police said that Tainui told tlie grocer that his wife and faini y were starving and obtained groceries and money to redeem a guitar, which he said wiis in pawn. He was not living with his wife or supporting his eight children. . . , ~ “I am afraid you nre incorrigible, said Mr Wyvern Wilson. You seem to have spent half your time in gaol.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 199, 23 July 1937, Page 8
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167MAGISTRATE’S COURT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 199, 23 July 1937, Page 8
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