A NOVEL DECISION
MAGISTRATE SOLVES DIFFICULTY CHARITY IN LIEU OF FINE.
(Peb United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 20. Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., adopted a 'ovel method of meeting a difficult ease in the Police Court, when ’ihomas George Maxted came up for sentence'on a charge of stealing a trotting sulky, which ho had removed from the trotting course- where it had been left by the owner for sonic time. Maxted is a farrier, and a conviction would prevent him from going on the course and would involve the loss of bis livelihood. The owner of the sulky was a good deal (o blame for leaving it so Jong on the course, said Mr Hunt. Ho proposed to make Maxted lose something to remember Ihe mailer by. '1 he charge would he dis-iiii.-sed, on condition that lie paid £5 to •he -Salvation Army for di-l ribution in charily. "I've no right in do it," added Mr Ilnnt. "but bill ii v, ill give bmi a chance,’’ Maxted paid (he amount iinmcdi- I ately. '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20104, 21 May 1927, Page 7
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173A NOVEL DECISION Otago Daily Times, Issue 20104, 21 May 1927, Page 7
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