FIVE MONTHS , GAOL.
RECEIVER OF STOLEN GOODS. WELLINGTON, This Day. John Edward Fitzgerald, who at one time was a member of the City Council, the Harbour Board, the Hospital Board, and the Technical Education Board, to-day at the Supreme Court was .sentenced two five months' imprisonment, after two trials. Fitzgerald was found guilty c:t a, charge of receiving motor tyres knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. Mr Justice Salmond said he believed that drink was probably the 'Causo of the present trouble. It was a matter for deep regret to see a man with such a public record in this position. He had spoilt what promised to be an honourable and successful life.—Press Assn.
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Northern Advocate, 25 August 1924, Page 8
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115FIVE MONTHS, GAOL. Northern Advocate, 25 August 1924, Page 8
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