POLICE COURT NEWS.
FAILURE TO ACCOUNT. PROBATION FOR CANVASSER. Four charges of failing to account for sums totalling £5 8s 4d were preferred against, William George Dennis, aged 39, in the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. F. IC. Hunt, S.M. Detective-Sergeant Kelly said that accused was employed by William J. Crawford, printer, of Levin, and from October 18 to December 20, 1928, he was engaged in canvassing the district round Levin for advertisements to appear in theatre programmes. Although ho had no authority to do so, he collected money and retained it. Accused had not been before the Court before. He was married, with two children. r . . Accused was placed on probation for 12 months, and was ordered to make restitution. * ' Richard Blake Simmons, aged bi, painter, was fined £1 on each of two charges of stealing lead piping from Percy Giles and some person unknown. Alexander O'Neill was fined £1 with costs for assaulting a schoolboy, aged 11. The boy said that he was playing marbles in the street and on going near a cart to recover one accused told him to go away and then struck him in the face with his closed fist.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20288, 22 June 1929, Page 16
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