YOUTH FINED FOR THEFT.
CIGARETTE LIT IN COURT. ADMONISHED BY POLICE. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] TE AROHA, Wednesday. A young man, Norman Georgo Wright, was charged in the To Arolia Police Court to-day before Messrs. D. McMahon and N. J. Bay, J.P.'s, with having, at Waitoa, stolen £l, tho property of Leonard Walter Faulkner Phillips. Accused pleaded not guilty. The police evidence showed that on Sunday accused was seen entering complainant's room in the New Zealand Cooperative Dairy Company's hostel by a window. He was later seen coming out. Accused denied having been near the room. He maintained that the man who said ho saw him enter and leave was mistaken as to his indentity.
He was fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonment, and was ordered to make restitution.
On hearing the Court's decision Wright produced cigarette and commenced to smoke in Court. He was peremptorily ordered by a constable to put it away.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21117, 26 February 1932, Page 12
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