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UNIFORM COAT MISSING

TWO CRICKETERS CHARGED MAGISTRATE DISMISSES CASE [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON. Friday Although dismissing the charge as trivial, the magistrate, Mr. J. H. Luxford, refused to suppress the names of Cornelius O'Halloran and William Calder Crisp, two members of a travelling cricket team from the Hutt Valley, charged with the theft of a uniform coat valued at £7 7s on the Eangatira en route to Lyttelton on New Year's Eve. It was stated that the two cricketers went to the wireless room of the ship with a friend who wanted to send a message. They had been round the bar and were in "a merry mood. While in the wireless room they took the operator's coat from where it was hanging. The coat's subsequent adventures included a trip to Christchurch, but it was made clear that there was never any intention that it should not bo returned. 1 ; , , The magistrate said he was satisfied there was no real intention to retain the coat permanently, but a cricket team should play the game when it was travelling as it was expected to do on the field.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 19

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UNIFORM COAT MISSING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 19

UNIFORM COAT MISSING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 19