Receiving Charge Against Civil Servant
(P.A.) „ AUCKLAND. This Day. Describing himself as'a civil servant and secretary and Crown representative of Ihe Armed Forces Appeal Eoard. Leslie Nielson Harris, clerk, aged 40. was charged with the theft of dress materials valued at £9/5/-, the property of the New Zealand Shipping Co., Ltd., and with receiving materials knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained, before Mr. F. H. Levien. S.M.
A seaman, Colin Webster, aged 31, was charged with the theft of materials. Harris elected to be dealt with by the Supreme Court, while Webster elected nummary jurisdiction. After evidence on the charges preferred against Harris was heard, Mr. I. J. Goldstiae, for accused, submitted that there was no evidence in support of the theft charge, and it should therefore be withdrawn. He proposed to call evidence on the charge of receiving. Agreeing with counsel’s submission, the magistrate discharged accused on the theft count.
Evidence on the receiving charge was being heard when the hearing adjourned until today.
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Northern Advocate, 25 February 1944, Page 5
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