SHEEP KILLED FOR FOOD
CHARGES AGAINST RELIEF WORKERS COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE [By Telegraph—Press Association] INVERCARGILL, This Day. In the Magistrate’s Court Ronald Craig Little and another, both aged 21 years, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing sheep valued at 25/-. Little pleaded guilty to failure to comply with rhe terms ot his release on probation and to a charge of stealing a watch valued at £6. Both' elected-to he dealt with summarily. Detective Sergeant Thompson ' ” {Said that the accused were employed in a relief camp. They became short of mutton and killed a breeding ewe. One was a first offender, but Little, who was married, was on probation for two years for theft. There was no suggestion that they had been making a habit of sheep stealing. The Magistrate convicted Little and sentenced him to three months on the first charge. On the others he was convicted and discharged. The other accused, a first offender, was given another chance. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon and ordered to make restitution of 25s in full. His Worship remarked that he would have taken a more serious view of the case had the sheep not been killed for food.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 29 June 1935, Page 6
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