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AUCKLAND. The hearing ;of charges of receiving* 48 bottles of whisky, knowing them to have been stolen, and of breaking into the warehouse of City Haulage, Ltd., and stealing 24 bottles of whisky, against Ronald Bruce Mathers, ;a taxi driver, 30, was continued before Mr- Justice Finlay yesterday. r -j-----In his address to the jury, Mr A. K. Turner, for accused said the accused hadbeen used by the burglars who had taken the whisky. After a short retirement ) the - jury found Mathers not guilty of all charges and he was ' • • •
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Northern Advocate, 30 October 1948, Page 5
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