FALSE FIRE ALARM.
FOUR YOUTHS FINED.
ruvJM luuino rmcu. " VERY SERIOUS OFFENCE." ! [B~ TELEGBAFH. —OWN CORRESFCNTEHT.] WAIHI, Friday. ""We look upon this offence as very serious. There have been a large number of false fire alarms in Waihi for a number of years. You are old enough to know better," said the justices of the peac? in the Waihi Police Court to-day in imposing fines ot £lO on Basil Stevens, aged 21, Leonard Frank Haynes, aged 20, Herbert Eric Rows and William Mair, aged 13, who were charged with having wilfully given a false alarm of fire. With the exception of Mair the accused pleaded guilty. Constable A. R. Rimmer said he witnessed the whole occurrence. Haynes actually gave the alarm. Rowe and Stevens were standing close by. Witness had heard Mair say that if they were going to give the alarm he wished to get away. Thereupon he ran down the street. In default of paying thq fines sentence was fixed at one month's imprisonment. Time in which to pay the fines was refused, as was an application for the suppression of accused's names.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20496, 22 February 1930, Page 13
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