FENCES DESTROYED.
FARMER'S SECOND OFFENCE.
A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT.
[by telegraph.—press association.] DANNEVIRKE. Wednesday. In the Police Court to-day Charles Henry Price, a farmer at Tahoraite, was charged with wilfully destroying fences..- Acqused was before the' Court on August 19,. when ho was convicted for a similar offence and fined. Accused co'ntended that none of the boundary feuces had been interfered with. The fences pulled down belonged to him. He honestly believed the fences belonged to him, and he denied committing wilful damage. Counsel for the complainant said accused apparently had a mania for destroying fences. This was his fourth >offience. The Bench, in sentencing accused to" six weeks' imprisonment, expressed regret, as accused had been a hard-working man and had brought up a large family.! He had had ample warning that lie could not perform acts of mischief. • '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19416, 26 August 1926, Page 12
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