FALSE FIRE ALARMS.
OFFENDER FINED £2O. " LUCKY NOT SENT TO GAOL." [by telegraph:.—own correspondent.] CHRISTCHURCH. Monday. The Christchurch Firs Brigade has been victimised on many occasions recently by persons giving false alarms, and so bad has the practice become that a special watch has been kept in the city and suburbs. On Saturday night an officer of the brigade surprised David Hull while the latter was breaking an alarm box. Hull appeared in the Police Court today before Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., and was fined amounts totalling £2O. There were seven charges. On each of two charges accused was fined £lO, or one month's imprisonment, and on the other charges was convicted and discharged. "You ought to get a term of imprisonment," said IJi© magistrate. " I think there is a bit of larrikinism about it as well as drink. You are going to bo prohibited for 12 months. If you are wise when the time is up you will renew your prohibition order. You can consider yourself extremely lucky I did not send you to gaol."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20024, 14 August 1928, Page 11
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