TWO MEN CHARGED
k BURGLARIES ALLEGED (By Telegraph—Press AssociatieS) HASTINGS. 27th June.’ A variety of articles adorned the Hastings Magistrate’s Court this morning, giving it the appearance of secondhand premises when a number •of charges of entering and theft from premises at Hastings and Napier and the surrounding- district extending over two years were preferred against William James Tait, aged 25, a married man with two children, and Roland Scott Barker, single, aged 23. The articles .varied from bagpipes and .a surveyor’s theodilite to-an eiderdown. ' Their total value was over £l5O. Two charges of entering and stealing from the premises of Land and Heighway, a sports depot, a number of rifles and ammunition, and breaking and entering the Napier Boys’ High School and stealing rifles were heard this morning. Tait pleaded not guilty to both charges and was committed do the Supreme Court at Napier for trial. Barker pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence. Two other charges are being heard this afternoon. Six .strokes of the birch were ordered in the Children’s Court to be inflicted on seven- Maori youths implicated in the cases.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 28 June 1935, Page 7
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191TWO MEN CHARGED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 28 June 1935, Page 7
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