TWO HORSES STOLEN
"THOUGHT.THEY WERE WILD" ACCUSED GIVEN PROBATION [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Monday Tho theft of, two horses, valued at £SO, at Mokai, in November, was admitted by Jnines Spencer Ryan, aged 33, in tho Hamilton Police Court today.
Senior-Sergeant G. H. Lambert said accused left a post-splitting job at Mokai and, on his way to Putaruru, he caught two horses, one, valued at £3O, the property of Douglas Cameron Hay, and the other, valued at £2O, tho property of Ranga Paerata. He sold the horses to an Okoroire settler for £3B. Tho horses had been recovered.
Accused said ho was looking for wild horses at tho time, and thought the two he caught were ownerless. Tho magistrate, Mr. S. L. Paterson, admitted accused to probation for two years and ordered him to refund the £3B.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22399, 21 April 1936, Page 12
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